Page 122 of Charity's Redemption

“And what?”

“What happened after that?”

“I became a Made Man after that.”

“Wow.”

“Yeah, so how did we get on this topic?”

“The girl that I killed. We were talking about it.”

I guess, if I think about it, there was no reason for me to make her death look like a suicide. She was going to die anyway, but I wanted there to be no doubt in the department’s mind that she was the perpetrator.

“I had something else I wanted to talk to you guys about.”

Both Nico and Max drew their attention closer, waiting for me to reveal something juicy, but it was simple and sweet, and something I’d been meaning to bring up.

“I hope you’re hungry,” Luca said, walking in the door with a massive platter full of pancakes, bacon, sausage, toast, hash browns, fried tomatoes—which had to be for him—and orange juice.

The room filled with the mouth-watering aroma as he kicked Max’s legs off the bed, forcing him to move over, then he placed the platter in the middle of the king-sized bed.

I snatched a slice of bacon off the platter before he could slap my hand away, then devoured it all in one bite.

“You’rethathungry you cannot even wait a moment?”

I shook my head with puffed-out cheeks like a chipmunk, then smiled the best I could without showing my food, then swallowed and grabbed a piece of toast. “Thank you, Luca. This is divine.”

“Hey, hey, hey. Stop eating and tell us what you wanted to say…” Max said, interrupting my small piece of nirvana.

I quickly chewed, then washed it down with a glass of orange juice. “Well, now that Luca’s here, it’s better I say it now.”

“Oh, God, now she makes me nervous.”

“Taci, Max.”

I laughed, now knowing he told him to shut up.

Wiping my hands together, freeing myself of the crumbs attached to my fingers. “I um, I was going to say that I’ve decided to sell my house and move in here.”

Luca paused mid-chew and dropped the tomatoes to the platter as his gaze swung up to mine. “You are?”

I nodded. “If that’s still okay?”

“Of course it is.”

A smile formed on my lips but vanished as the nerves crashed into my belly with the next thought. “But there’s one other thing I wanted to bring up.”

“Oh no,” Max said, looking wary.

Nico and Luca glared at Max simultaneously.

“What?” Luca’s skeptical features had me laughing on the outside but jittery like a buzzing bee inside.

“I want us all to live together.”

“We discussed—”

“Oh no, I am not giving up my apartment.”

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