Page 84 of Enforcer
“I’m not going to give you any more shit, Lyss. I’ll only say one thing: I wish you’d give him a chance. I know what he did was fucked, but he’s a good man, and he loves you.”
“My dad said he loved my mom.”
She scoffs. “Your dad was a fucking twat, and we both know it. I also know you’re not a fucking idiot, and you can feel it in your gut when someone’s a shit person. What do you feel whenDante is around? Even when he fucked up, even when he lied, did you feel it here?” She points to my stomach, and I swallow against the growing lump in my throat.
“Promise me you’ll think about it. Promise me you’ll pay attention to your gut around him.”
Tears prick my eyes as I nod. “I promise, B.”
“I love you, girl.” She tugs me in for another hug. “I’m so sorry I pulled you into this world with me, but I was too selfish not to. I can’t do this life without you beside me.”
My chest tightens again as I hug her back. “I’m where I want to be, Brynne. Don’t feel guilty for any of this. It’s not your fault.”
She pulls back, grinning. “I know this isn’t my fault. This is your greedy pussy’s fault. Though, I didn’t think you’d fuck Dante first, he’s a bit intimidating.”
I laugh, wiping my eyes. “Who did you think I’d fuck first?”
She thinks for a minute. “Mm, Lorenzo, probably.”
While Lorenzo is as tall and broodingly handsome as Dante, he holds no candle to him.
“Ew, no. I love Lorenzo, don’t get me wrong, but no.”
Brynne looks a bit sad. “See how easy you just said you loved Lorenzo? I need you to get there with Dante. Because I know you have feelings for him, Lyss. Let them happen.”
“I promised I’d try. Just give me time to work all this out, alright?”
She nods.
I shoo her with my hands. “Good. Now go on your honeymoon, for fuck’s sake.”
She smiles sadly at me, getting off the edge of the bed and walking over to the door.
“I’ll be thinking of you, girl. I love you,” she tells me.
I smirk. “Please don’t think of me while Daddy fucks you. It’s weird.”
She laughs as Slate comes in the door. “Ready, bunny?”
When Dante returns to the room, there’s a new tension that the conversation with Brynne has bred, and I can’t seem to break through it.
“Need anything before I go home and shower?” he asks me, and I shake my head, hiding the keys to my new place beneath the hospital covers, thumbing them with a new growing worry in my heart at the decisions to come.
“No. Thank you,” I answer.
“Text if you need anything from the house or picked up on my way back to you,” he says, and I nod as he moves out of the room.
I take the keys from beneath the blankets and move them back and forth, heart hammering in my chest as I push the nurse button.
“Yes?”
“I need to speak with the doctor about getting released,” I tell the voice on the speaker.
“I’ll see if I can find him for you,” the nurse says.
“Thank you,” I whisper, knowing she can’t hear me as a tear falls down my cheek.
Everything feels so raw and heavy, and I need to hide away for a few days from all of it. Dante Ricci has turned my fucking world upside down, and I want it right again.