I Left Him and Took Everything He Owed Me
My husband was working over the holidays, again. He’d been sent out of town to oversee one of the Family’s dock operations and a string of gambling houses.. I decided to buy a ticket and surprise him.
Only business class was left.
Staring at the five-figure price, I gritted my teeth and spent a year’s worth of savings.
Then I couldn’t even figure out how to pull down the damn tray table.
The socialite seated next to me let out a cold laugh.
“Never flown business class before?”
I forced an awkward smile. “My apologies. You must be… important. You have that aura.”
“Oh, me? No. The man who keeps me is important. He’d charter a private jet if I asked. Business class is practically slumming it.”
I blinked. “A… keeper? That’s rare.”
“Not really. I’m his secretary. I mess up a lot. Cost him a fortune. He yells at me until I cry. And then, well… crying leads to other things.” She winked. “You know how it is.”
“Funny,” I said, my voice tight. “My husband has an assistant who helps him manage accounts for the docks. She’s always messing things up too.”
“You’re married?”
She looked me over, head to toe.
“My man has a wife about your age. Says he’s sick of her. That touching her is boring. Says I’m more exciting just brushing my hair out of my face.”
She leaned closer.
“I told him I wanted to see him for New Year’s. So he told the wife he had to work.”
The diamond on her finger caught the light. It was identical to the wedding band I’d lost.
My body went cold.
No. Matteo was just a low-level enforcer. A foot soldier the Family occasionally trusted with small operations—dock shipments, backroom gambling, nothing more.
When did he become a Don?