Page 32 of Stolen Kisses
“The diner, you work there sometimes. I’m Luc.”
“I know,” I smiled.
His smile turned up a notch. “Do you now?”
“Yeah.”
“Well look at this, you know of me and I know of you and yet this had to happen to you for us to actually speak. We should do something about that, meet under better circumstances.”
My mind completely drained of the horror from just five minutes ago.
I nodded in complete agreement. It seemed like I had just hit the jackpot I wished for not even an hour ago.
Chapter 9
Dante
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Present day …
“What would you guys do?” I asked looking from Alex to Gio.
“I’d act then think about the consequences later.” Gio nodded.
We were talking about Maria. I’d told them how weird I thought things were with her.
We were at the workshop garage playing poker in the back. The three of us sat around a table.
Claudius was over by the work table fiddling with some part for a bike someone wanted fixed with a newer engine.
He’d come in about ten minutes ago right when we were at the height of the game.
“Is this a woman you want Dante?” Alex smirked.
“Yes.” I could always be real with them.
“Then why are we talking about this like it’s business?”
“Because we have to tread softly, because it’s Maria.” Gio chuckled. “I forget you probably don’t know how bad Dante wanted her back in the day. Now she’s freed up and he wants her again.”
Claudius lifted his head and looked over at us. “You guys talking about Luc’s Maria?”
“Jesus not you too.” I snapped. “You should know better than to call her that.”
Claudius shook his head at me. “What you want me to call her?YourMaria when you didn’t have the balls to claim the woman?”
“She was with Luc; we don’t piss on each other that way.”
“Well, you can piss all you want now. She came by the restaurant yesterday with her son asking for a job. She didn’t know we owned the place. She saw Luc and took off.” Claudius explained. “Luc went to see her and said she seemed like she was in trouble, because she’d only ever go to her aunts if she was.”
Fuck. I knew I shouldn’t have just left her.
“That all he said?” I asked.
“He thought the boy was his.”
Alex started to laugh. “Now that would be big news.”
