THE GODFATHER'S RUNAWAY SURROGATE
He was studying me again, his eyes scanning my face, tracing the frame of my oversized glasses down to my trembling lips.
The silence stretched so long I could hear the grandfather clock ticking in the hallway.
"Who hired you?" he asked abruptly.
"Mrs. Gable, signore," I lied smoothly, though my throat felt incredibly dry. I had used a high-quality fake ID and references that a friend had painstakingly created for me. "Three weeks ago."
"You don't look like a maid," he murmured, his gaze dropping to my hands, which were rough from the cheap cleaning chemicals but still lacked the calluses of someone who had done manual labor her entire life.