Page 107 of My Mafia Daddy

Actually, I’m pretty sure I need medical attention, but I can’t go to a hospital. Hudson had managed to put in a few blows, ripping open my gun wound. The metallic tang of blood hang heavy in the air.

Without even really thinking about what I’m doing, I find myself traveling down a familiar path.

I walked away from Emma, without really planning to see her again.

Her father won’t want me with her.

I don’t want to die, or for her to get hurt either.

But I don’t know anyone else who can look after me now.

If nother, then someone at the clinic, right?

That’s a place for people like me. People who need to be treated without anyone finding out who I am. Homeless people, mob guys, those who have gone under the radar their whole lives…

This clinic is a lifesaver for them, and I need it to save my life right now.

I needsomeoneto help me.

I pull up the car outside the clinic, remembering the days I was a homeless man, Wilson Anderson, recalling when I panicked and kidnapped Emma.

Who would have thought that all of that would lead me here?

Strange.

I’m getting too dizzy now as I climb out the car. I can hardly see straight.

If I can just make it to that door, then I will be okay, right?

But I don’t know if I can make it all the way.

I’m too weak.

My knees hurt.

It feels like the ground is speeding up to my face and there’s nothing that I can do to stop it…

TWENTY-SEVEN

EMMA

Nothing feels the same.

I think that’s the hardest part of all of this.

Everything is weird and I can’t stand it. Even Lily has been looking at me all day like I’ve lost my mind. I don’t think anyone is buying the sickness lie I’m trying to spin.

I’ve been out of action for way too long for that to be believable, but what else am I supposed to say? I can’t let anyone know the truth of who I really am.

I don’t want to be here really. Not like I used to.

I don’t have the same love in my heart.

That’s not to say that I don’t like helping people because of course I do. All I want to do is help, but my life isn’t my own at the moment.

Now I have three freaking bodyguards, but I still don’t know if that will be enough.

Things between the Lucchese’s and my family aren’t good, and I can’t see them getting better any time soon.

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