Page 34 of Morally Gray Daddies

“I’ll go with you for that, too,” he said. I shrugged again, putting my head down and focusing on eating. I needed to keep up my strength if I was going to go on the run from the mob today.

Gio

My wife was up to something. I figured she meant to run, but I wasn’t sure how or when she was planning to do it, which was going to keep me on high alert all day. If I was being truthful, I was looking forward to the chase.

Looking forward to proving she was mine all over again.

And again.

As often as I could get my cock in her, in every way I could.

Having her at breakfast with the family was satisfying in its own right. She was shifting uncomfortably in her seat, eyeing me like I was a cobra about to strike at any moment. Before Jack spoke up, I’d been toying with the idea of tossing her over my shoulder again and carrying her off in front of everyone. Just to show that I could. Just to see what she would do.

My dick still liked the idea, but business came first. Especially dangerous business like this.

“We’ll pick up Leonardo today if we can,” Jack said, glancing at his father. Uncle Lorenzo nodded his permission.

This was going to be dicey. We were planning on taking out another Don and his heir. It would be best if no one ever knew what happened or why, but if there was blowback… having that note from Don Bianco to Leonardo would be crucial. Most Familias would understand why Hailey would ask her husband for retribution after reading that note. They might not like it, but they would understand it. And if it did come out, it would hardly hurt Hailey’s reputation to be known as the cold-blooded bitch who took a hit out on her own grandfather and cousin to pay them back for the murder of her parents.

The Biancos were known to be a little crazy, anyway. Hailey might be a DiNardo now, but she still had the Bianco blood.

“I know his schedule,” Clara offered up easily. It was her cooperation that was most suspicious to me. While there were good reasons for it, I also expected a bit more fight from her—especially when it came to accompanying her to retrieve the note and her things from the precinct. Watching her as she talked through Leonardo’s usual daily movements, I enjoyed seeing the heat rise in her cheeks.

She was determinedly not looking at me.

In fact, she was so focused on not looking at me that she might as well have been staring at me.

A smug smile curved my lips, and I leaned toward her, reaching over to play with one of her blonde curls at the nape of her neck. She stiffened, stuttering a moment before picking up where she’d left off, determined to ignore me. The desire to throw her over my shoulder increased.

It would be pretty hard to ignore me with my cock in her.

But I would save that for later.

As breakfast cleared up, Clara and Hailey huddled together, speaking softly. I hung back, watching everyone, when movement in the doorway caught my eye. Frowning, I went over. Anthony, another cousin, though more distantly related than Jack, stood there with a smirk on his face.

“I have something I believe you’ve been missing,” he said to me in Italian, holding up his hand with my great-grandfather’s pocket watch. I grabbed it from him, peering at it to make sure it was the watch that I thought it was… It was cleaner, shinier than it had been when I’d lost it, which made no sense.

“Where did you find it?” I asked, also speaking Italian. If Anthony was doing so, he had reason.

“In your new bride’s things from her boarding house.” The smirk on Anthony’s face grew as he took in my expression. “She must have good fingers if she lifted it from you without you noticing.”

Good fingers, indeed.

My own fingers closed around it, relief flooding me at having it back in my possession. My mind cast back to Jack and Hailey’s wedding and dancing with Clara… No wonder I’d “lost” it. And she’d held on to it since then.

I didn’t know if I was flattered or furious that she’d wanted a token from me, even back then. I did know that my hand itched to punish her naughty bottom. Yes, she’d stolen it from me before we’d caught her thieving and warned her against it. On the other hand, she hadn’t fessed up to this original theft.

I couldn’t do anything about it right now, but my babydoll was going to be in for an interesting night. I was already starting to plot and plan, even as I walked up behind her.

She felt my approach.

I could see it in the way her body reacted. Pleased, I cupped my hand around her hip, pulling her into my side. Hailey gave me a suspicious look, bordering on disapproval, but she seemed to have accepted that Clara was mine now. At the very least, she didn’t say anything against it.

“Keep her safe,” Hailey said to me.

My babydoll made a disgusted noise.

“I can keep myself safe,” she told Hailey. “I’ve been keeping myself safe. I’m the one who found the note, on my own, without anyone watching over me, in the first place. I’m far better at keeping myself safe than you are.”

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