Page 24 of Mafia Boss's Surprise Baby

I blanch. “God, no. I think I drank enough yesterday for the rest of my life.”

Dante laughs. “I understand that. Me too.”

“At least, let’s eat first,” I suggest, and he nods, ordering us waters and a shrimp appetizer.

I look at him curiously. “I feel like I don’t know that much about you.”

Dante spreads his hands. “I’m an open book.”

I snort. “I don’t know about that.”

“Ask me anything,” he says, and I tilt my head.

“When did you lose your virginity?”

Dante barks out a laugh. “Fifteen. What about you?”

“Sixteen,” I say. “So you see, I’m not a prude like everyone says.”

He looks at me. “Does everyone say that?”

I pout. “You haven’t heard it around town? All because I like to stay at home mostly, people think I’m stuck up.”

“You’re not stuck up at all,” he says, something glinting in his eyes.

I nod slowly. “I guess maybe I was, for a while,” I admit. “After the shootout, I was afraid to leave the house.”

Dante gives me a sympathetic look. “I can imagine. You were so young.”

I look down at my silverware. “I guess you don’t remember me much from that day.”

“I didn’t for a while,” he admits. “For a long time, I didn’t think much about it. But when I saw my father’s wishes, it all came back to me.”

“It did?” I ask, looking up at him.

He shrugs. “You have to understand, Mia, you were just a kid then.”

I smile. “I know. I just think...I think that was when I fell in love with you.”

Dante’s eyes widen. “When you were seventeen?”

I nod slowly. “Is that weird?”

“I think it’s very romantic, given I saved your life,” he says proudly, and I chuckle.

“You think so?”

“I do,” he hums, and reaches across the table to take my hands in his.

The server comes back, smiling. “Newlyweds?” she asks.

“On our honeymoon,” I say proudly, and Dante smiles evenly at her, that strange predatory smile I can never quite figure out.

“So, tell me something true,” I say suddenly after we put in our orders with the server.

“Something true?” Dante cocks his head.

“Yeah. Something not many other people know.”

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