Chapter 46
“Don’t be rude, Dominic,” 1 usap,
Lucy’s eyes widen as she looks loewern the beat them.
Terca dimostrare un po’ di rispetto a tua madre. Questa à casa nURL”
Gabriel says (“Show some respect to your mother at her dinner table 7 “No,” Dominic sayı
“Parlami in italiano, Gabriel fires back. I’You speak to me In Italian.“) “No.” Dominie gets up and marches upstairs.
“Torna bio qui” Gabriel calls after law (Ten come back here right now.“)
No
The table falls silent and Lucy stares after him before she finally continues to eat
Gabriel puts 1
shis fork down and I gesture to his bowl. You need to eat it all.”
“I want to live.”
Texhale heavily, that was a disaster. I should have put arsenic in his food and put us all out of misery.
“Tat. The food.” I smile through gritted teeth. “Don’t make me force feed you because I will
picks up
Gabriel glares at me and eventually picks up his fork.
My god, that couldn’t have gone worse. Dom is a handful, sometimes too much for even me
“Lacy, why don’t you take Dom’s diner up to him
“Okay.” Lucy grabs her brother’s bowl and toddles off upstairs.
I wait until she is out of pars reach. “What did you say to him in allan??
He was being rude, so I pulled him into line.”
“What?” I screw up my face. Tou do not get to pall him into line anythe first day of being a father.”
“He doesn’t get to be made to me on the first day of being my son, Not on day one, not ever. He needs to learn straight away that bad behavior will not be tolerated.”
1 slump back into my chair and look around the empty table. “Eat your food.”
Tm getting you a cook”
“Why?”
“Because no wonder he’s in a bad mood. The pour bastard is being poisoned to death.” He stirs the food in his bowl “And for the recurd, you cut the fucking coins up. Not throw them in whole.”
I glance down at the eyeball pickled onions in his spaghetti and I get the giggles.
“There is nothing funny about your cooking, Seraphina.“
“Kind of.”
“Not at all” be snaps.
“Well, you need to eat what I cook the children; tells them that you are like them.”
“If they like this,” He gestures to his plate as he searches for the right word. Then we are nothing alike. He puts his head uno his hands and exhales heavily in disappointment.
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The really is feeling so out of his depth here.
“Crescinic is strong willed”
nemt at sf processing my words. “Twanted tonight to be sire so that they would remember ne fondly
Well, in that rave dent be yourself”
“What?” He screws up his face. “That’s your white, don’t be unprelf?”
“You’re a rude pig. If you want them to like you, not nice.”
1 am not a rude pieTM
Oh yes you are. And for the record. Dominic is the carbon copy of you and will not hark drom, he’s a lot to handle
If you want his respect, you have to
Well, that works both ways.”
No. Dont you dare pull that card “
He stays silent and Lacy comes bouncing back to the table, she sits down and continues to eat.
Gabriel watches her for a while as if having an out of body experience.
Where will I be sleeping?” Gabriel aks.
In my room
I take it that’s upstairs?” He pushes out his chair as if about to get up.
“No.” I stand in a rush. I have to straighten things up in there. You finish your dinner and I’ll get it ready for you
He nods, distracted. “Thank you.”
Hook between him and Lury, do I leave her here alone with him?
He’s her father.
God, I really need to wrap my head around this
“Are you two okay down here together if I go upstairs and organize a few things?” My eyes linger on Lucy as I wait for her reaction, she smiles goofily with an over exaggerated nod.
Ugh traiter.
Can’t she at least act uninterested in him for my sake?
“I think we are doing just fine, aren’t we, Luca?” Gabriel smiles over at her.
The vision of the two of them blurs as my eyes wed with tears. I turn toward the door so that they can’t see my face and stumble to the stairs. In the darkness ink down to sit on one halfway up
I can hear my heart beating in my chest asi
as an overwhelming panir runs through me
He turns op here, says a few pretty words and already she willingly adores!
Just like that and he’s leaving
I sit in the darkness for a while and Iran hear them talking in the distance. Gabriel is asking her questions and she’s loving the attention
She says something that I can’t hear and Thear Gabriel laugh and then she laughston
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My beautiful litle girl, so happy to be talking g with her father, I smile softly in the darknes
Okay, I need to get my art together and try and fix this stumtion with liominir, I want him to have a happy memoryton. Extand and make my song upstairs and knock on the closed door. “Tom”
Lopen the door to find him sitting on his bed playing with his Nintendo
Switch, and I sit down beside him. “Are you okay?” “Yop” He keeps playing.
“Dul Gabriel upset you?”
“Nope, he says, he kreps playing as he acts unintereN
“What did he say to you in Itaban?” Lask
Nothing much”
I sit beside him for a moment and I dont want to make this more dramatic than it needs to be, this has to be in his time, not mine “Ts it say if
I sleep in here with you tonight on the trundle bed?” “Yeah, all right.” He keeps playing.
Damn it, this is getting me nowhere and I have to clean my room for Gabriel
The back soon, babha.”
He nods and keeps playing the stupid game.
I rush into my bedroom and look around at the chaos Ahhh. Why aren’t I a housewife superstar, it would be so much more convenient at times like
this
I staff my washing into the clothes hamper, I gather up some clothes that are hanging over the chair in the corner of the room and throw them onto the top shelf of my wardrobe.
Irun my eyes over the contents of the wardrobe, organized and disorderly.
Oh man, if he looks in there, I’m totally screwed
Ugh, I don’t have time to worry about that now. I slam the door shur,
1 pull the covers hack on my bed. I should change the sheets.
Damn it, I only changed the sheets yesterday and my other set of sheets is still on the line.
Stur
These sheets will I have to do.
Tremake the bed and straighten up the cushions, oh crap, can’t forget that I rustle through my bedside drawer for my vibrator and stuff ir into the basket of washing and hide it with some clothes.
I do a quick clean of my dressing table and throw my makeup into my top drawer as I look around the bedroom, what else have I missed anything?
Is there anything in here that is too personal for him to see?
Who am I kidding, it’s my bedroom, everything is personal
