Chapter 47
“Don’t he rude, Dominic,” I inap.]].
Lucy‘ eyes widen the looks between the ten of them
“cerca di inastrare un po‘ di rispetto a tua madre. Questa è casa sua.“||
Gabriel says. (Show some respect to your mother at her dinner table.“) “No.” Dominic says ||
“Parlami in Italians.” Gabriel fires back to speak to ne in allan.) “N” Dominic gets up and marches upstairs.
Toms subito qui,” Gabriel calls after him. Prou come hack here right now.”
The talle falls silent and Lucy stares after him before she finally continues to eat
Gabriel puss his fock down and i gesture to his bowl. “You need to eat at all.”
“I want to
T
I exhale heavily, but was a dumber. I should have puramente in his food and put us all out of misery||
“Eat. The food.” I smile through gritted teeth. “Ten’t make me force–feed you because I will:||
Gabriel glares at me and eventually picks up his fork |
My god, that couldn’t have puur worse. Dom is a handful, sometimes ton math for even me
*Lary, why don’t you take Don’s dinner up to him“]]
“Okay” Lucy grabs her brother’s bowl and toddles oft upstairs
I wait until she is out of war each. “What did you say to him in italian?
“He was being rude, so I pulled him toto line.”
“What?” screw up my face. “You do not get to pull him into live on the first day of being a father.“||
“He doesn’t get to be rude to me on the first day of helag my son. Not on day one, not ever. He needs to learn straight away that bad behavior will not be tolerated.”
1 slump hack into my chair and look around the empty tater. “Tat your food“]
I’m getting you a
“Why?”
amook
“necuase no wonder he’s in a bad mood. The poor bastard is being polsoned to death.” He stirs the food in his howl. “And for the record, you cut the fucking
ss up. Not throw them in whole
I go down at the
the eyeball pickled onions in his spaghend and get the giggles ||
“There is nothing, fanny about your cooking, Violet”
“atut an ali,” be anajar
“Well, you need to eat what I took the children; it sells them that you are like them.
“If they like this.” He pestures to his plate as he searches for the right word. “Then we are nothing gike.” He puts his head into his hands and exhales heavily in disappointment
I watch him for a moment. He really is feeling as out of his depth here||
Tempathy fills me
*Dominic is strong willed”
He sits for a moment as if processtag my words. ‘I wanted tonight to
to be nice so that they would remember me fondly.“]
“well, in that case don’t be yourself.“]
“What?” He screws up his face. “That’s your advice, don’t be myseln“]
“You’re a rude pig. If you want them is like you, artice.“]
i a rude pig“]
Tam not a
“Oh yes you are. And for the record, Dominic is the cation copy of you and will not hack down, he’s a lot to handle. If you want his respect, you have to earn it.“]]
“Well, that works both ways“]
“No Don’t you dare pull that card
He stays silent and Lucy comes bounding back to the table, she sits down an
and continues to CM
em!
Gabelel wanches her for a while as if having an out–of–body experience||
“Where will I be sleeping?” Gabriel asks
“us my room.” T
“I take it that’s upstairs?” He pushes out his chair as if about to pri up
“No.” I stand in a rush. “I have to straighten things up in there. You finish your dinner and I get it ready for you.“|||
He nods, distracted. “Thank you.“]
Hook between him and Lary, do I leave her here alone with hin
He’s ber 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 over exaggerated hod
Ugh traitor
Can’t she at l
at least act uninterested in him for my sake?||
“I think we are doing just fine, aren’t we, Luda? Gabriels over at her
The vision of the two of them blurs in my eyes well with tears. 1 turn toward the door so that they can’t see my face and stumble to the stairs. In the darkness. I sink down to sit on one hallway up||
I can hear my bram beating in my chest as an overwhelming panic runs through me
The nums up here, says a few pretty words and already she willingly adores him.
Just like that and he’s leaving[]
1st in the darkness for a while and I can hear t
them talking in the distance, Gabriel is asking her questions and she’s loving the attention.[]
She says something that it 1 hear and 1 hear Gabriel laugh and then she laughs too.
My beautiful lande girl, so happy to be talking with her father, I smile softly in the darkness.[]
Clay, I need to get my art together and try and fix this situation with Dominic, I want him to have a happy memory too, I stand and make my way upstairs and knock on the closed door. “Dom”
I open the door to find him sitting
sitting on his bed playing with his Nintendo
Switch, and I sit down beside him. “Are you okay?” “Yep.” He keeps playing[]
“Did Gabriel upset your
“Nope.” he says, he keeps playing as he acts uninterested.
“What did he say to you in Halian?” Task
“Nothing mich.”
1 sat beside him for a moment and I don’t want in make this more dramatic than it needs to be this
this has to
to be in his time, not mine. “Is it okay 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 ||
“I’ll be hack soon, Inabilia.“||
He nods and keeps playing the stupid game
1 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.
1 stuff my washing into the clothes hamper, I gather up some cinches that are hanging over the chair in the corner of the room and throw them onto the top shelf of my wardrobe.||
run my eyes over the contents of the wardrobe, unorganized and disorderly |
Oh man, if he looks in there, i totally screwed.
Ugh. I don’t have time to worry about that now. I
the door shut
1 pull the covers back on my bed. I should change the sheets
till en tive
elinel
Thamn it. I only changed the sheets yesterday and my other set of sheets is still on
Shit]
These sheet will have to do.]]
1 remake the bed and straights up the cushions, oh crap, can’t forget that I rustle through my bedside drawer for my vibrator and stuff it 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?]
Why am I kidding, it’s my bedroom, everything is personal.
