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Mafia Secret
Angie Derek
Re-Released April 12th, 2016
Thoroughweb Press
Lessa Noelle grew up never knowing she was the illegitimate daughter of a mafia king pin. After his murder, she finds herself a surprise heiress immersed in the dangerous world of organized crime with only the guidance of Marco Santos, her father’s second in command, to help her.
An uneasy attraction blossoms between the two as Marco searches for her father’s killer. He tries to keep the realities of his life from touching her and an already dangerous situation turns volatile when a killer turns his attention to Lessa.
Her mother should be working the swing
shift at the hospital, so she auto-dialed her mom’s cell number. It rang twice.
“Hi
honey,” Erin Noelle said.
“Hey
Mom.” Lessa glanced away from Santos, who was now listening closely to her side
of the conversation. “Are you busy?”
“I
can talk for a moment. What’s up?”
The
background noise of the hospital faded out as her mother probably ducked into a
room to hear her better.
“I
need to ask you something.” She struggled for courage to ask the question which
could change everything.
“What
now?” Erin laughed.
Lessa
took a deep breath. “Who is Jiovanni Tazio, and why is he sending me a letter
saying he’s my father?”
Erin
made a startled sound and the line went quiet.
“Mom?”
Dread filled her. Her mom was supposed to say she didn’t know who the heck
Jiovanni Tazio was.
“How
did you find out?” Erin demanded.
“It’s
true?” The line went silent again. Lessa spun to focus on the photo from the
long-ago trip to Disney. Of the three of them smiling—her mother, Lessa, and
the man she’d thought was her father. Who maybe wasn’t.
“Of
course it’s not true. Peter’s your father. You look just like him.”
But
she didn’t. She closed her eyes. She and Peter had similar coloring. Blonde
hair, blue eyes, fair skin. But her features were like her mother’s.
“Just
send the letter back to this man. He obviously got the wrong person.”
Her
mom’s voice was too cool, and Lessa didn’t believe a word. “You mean hand it
back to the courier?”
Erin
gasped a second time. “Get away from him. Jiovanni’s men are dangerous.”
“Who
says it’s a man? And who says it isn’t Jiovanni himself?” The depth of her
mother’s lies started to work through her. She pressed her hand against her
burning stomach.
“You
have to get away from him right now.”
She
shook her head even though her mother couldn’t see her. “You lied to me. All
these years, and you pretended Peter was my father.”
“Sweetie,
listen to me, they’re dangerous people. I had to lie to keep you safe. You need
to stay as far away from Jiovanni as possible.”
She
almost choked on her outrage. “That shouldn’t be a problem since, apparently,
he’s dead.” And with him dead, she’d never have the chance to find out who her
father really was.
“Jiovanni’s
dead?”
Angie Derek writes paranormal and romantic suspense. She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, two daughters, two horses, two cats, and a dog.
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