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Chapter 169Katie's POVI smirked and shimmied my shoulders a little. “Oh, Daddy, I’m pretty well aware of what Cephus can do if I let him close to me.”“Have some dignity, Katie,” Mum snapped.“Like you do when you’re getting a man’s kneecaps smashed up because he had ideas about planning for the future of our neighborhood that didn’t align with yours?”She rolled her eyes, and then her whole head as well. “Rocky Halloran had it coming, trust me.”Something about that pushed my buttons in a way no other part of this mess had yet. “Trust you, Mum? Why should I trust anything that comes out of your mouth when you’ve done nothing but lie to me and sit on everything you know about me for your e I was born, probably?”Daddy stepped in between the two of us, so I had to recoil even as I was lunging to get in her face. “Don’t you be histrionic, Katie, and show your mother the respect due her.”That was how it always worked with the two of them. Mum would blow up about something, and look t
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Katie's POV
Chapter 170Katie's POVI should have known he wasn’t going to wait to be called back like a good little boy.“Ever all right here, sweetheart?” He practically danced past my parents and slung an arm across my shoulder. I was pulled against his side, my breast pressing hard against his muscular torso. I hadn’t had time to put on a bra, so the contact lanced through me in a way that made me feel ready to slide back into bed before I’d even gotten breakfast… and maybe with company, too.“Just thrashing out the details of the wedding.” I dared to tip my head against him, trying to feel the hard muscle I knew was packed around his shoulder through his sleek suit. It seemed a bit awkward to be playing around with this kind of intimacy when the most that had happened between us was that kiss that hadn’t exactly filled him with uncontrollable desire, and my parents knew damn well it wasn’t like we’d met normally and made a connection that way.But the more I settled into the idea of what
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Cephus’ POV
Chapter 171Cephus’ POVJust thinking about the Italian contingent, you’re going to have to choose between the Capriottis and the Rosens, to begin with. Both, and you’re liable to have someone pull out a gun eventually. They might restrain themselves enough not to shoot, but I wouldn’t count on it with the Italians, they love going full mob with things, and the flash of a muzzle tends to ruin the event anyway.”I tried not to burst out giggling. In the space of a handful of hours, I’d gone from possibly dying a technical virgin at the hands of unexpected captors, to getting into an engagement with a man slightly out of my league that might see me becoming very wealthy in my own right, if that man’s sense of honor worked the way I thought… to needing to work out how to not die possibly still a virgin at my wedding reception from a stray gunshot.It was certainly going to be a good way to get to know the family, though. “Do I get some say in this? Like, can I see who the options are fo
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Cephus’ POV
Chapter 172Cephus’ POV“I’m not like one of your usual little boys who is too afraid to even touch you. If you try to play games with me, I won’t allow you to assign me different rules.”“You know what I think,” I muttered, “you have a problem with expressing intimacy with a woman unless there’s a point to it.”“Spoken like a young woman who has never used intimacy without a purpose—and that being a purpose that pleases her and nobody else.”“Who else am I supposed to be looking to please?” I demanded.“If you intend to be intimate with me, you will need to be focused on pleasing me.”“That sounds a little bit like your personal fantasy, Mr. Cephus.”Cephus turned away from a very meticulously spread piece of toast on the jam to frown at me. “No, Katie, I can’t say it’s ever been a fantasy of mine to have to put a young woman with a bad attitude back in her place. Some men may feel differently but you’ve chosen wrong in this case, if that was what you were hoping for.”“It’s not lik
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Cephus’ POV
Chapter 173Cephus’ POV“She’s going to judge you,” said Cephus after we’d been driving for maybe ten minutes.I had been occupying myself in trying to smooth down a crease in my black skirt that just kept on puckering up while I was sitting down; those words were exactly what it took to send me into an accelerated frenzy of smoothing.“I’m telling you this because you need to hear it if you want to make this work,” Cephus added. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with you at all, quite the opposite. But she’s going to look at you right now and see a little girl on her way to a job interview.”“Isn’t that what this is?” I retorted, mostly just to have something to say.Cephus snorted. “You’d better hope not. If she had a say you would already be out on your arse.”I clenched my hands into fists so hard I started as my nails started to pierce my skin.“It’s really up to you.” Cephus’s tone was conversational, his arms relaxed as he steered. “If you want to have this turn out the sam
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Cephus’ POV
Chapter 174Cephus’ POV“It was my idea. I’m more than happy to forgive the debt for the privilege of humiliating them,” said Cephus.Angel crossed her ankles. “Well, I don’t disagree in principle. She’s not much of a find though, is she?”Cephus’s grip on my hand was starting to hurt, and I wasn’t having any luck getting his attention to make him let go of me. “I see her having potential.”“Ah yes, potential… the metric of underachievers,” Angel smirked at me like she’d been waiting to use that one on someone for a long time. “I’ve been looking forward to an opportunity arising to use that one.”I wasn’t going to take that jab and just stay silent. “I’m so happy for you.”I cringed into Cephus’s side when Angel began looking me up and down in a new, much more appraising way, hating that it was to him like that. I didn’t think he felt much of anything in return.“I appreciate your spirit,” she said. “But that is only going to take you so far. You’re defensive when it comes to your s,
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Katie's POV
Chapter 175Katie's POV“Am I supposed to believe you are shy?”I was so startled by Cephus's Voice that here I dropped the capsicum I’d been fidgeting with. It rolled across the bench, and Cephus caught it with one hand while he continued dicing its unlucky sibling with the other.“I guess you wouldn’t,” I admitted, “but if any situation was going to make me feel that way… I mean, we’ve gone from you having me dragged out If bed to trying to cook with me?”“You’ve got to roll with the challenges life presents you sometimes, Katie,” said Cephus, rolling the second capsicum into the path of his knife.“Are you talking about me here or you?”“Both of us, for once.” His expression visibly dulled. It struck me then just how much more animated he had become since we had first met. It was just a handful of hours but there was someone behind the mafia man front he was slowly letting me see, whether by choice or unconsciously I did not know.It bothered disappearing again. It was messing wi
Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Katie's POV
Chapter 176Katie's POV“Madonna and child.” Cephus folded his arms and leaned back; it felt like an acknowledgment that I’d landed a hit, but I didn’t have any idea how. I’d just been trying to give a voice to my frustrations. “So you know a little bit about art, then.”“I think that’s kind of something I picked up through pop culture actually,” I said. I was hoping to screw with him while I seemed to have an advantage, and he did appear to deflate a little in response. “You’d be more eager to get a leg over if I was the kind of girl who t art and how to engage with you because I have any desire to ‘get a leg over’. And I have no intention of scorning you because you lack cultural polish. I assure you that I will be able to provide for you sexually in every way you might require.”“What kind of statement is that? Trust me, I’m a sexy beast, even though from the way I behave you would expect pretty much any Arctic land to be less frigid than I am?”“Do you want me to provide referen
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Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Katie's POV
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Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss Katie's POV
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