Sold To the Grizzly Don (Alcee and Bruno) novel Chapter 66

Chapter 66

Brunella walked to them and tapped Antero on the nose, “do you know Antero, your father when he was a small boy, needed to rat six meali day?”

“Torquato was never a small boy. Cicciu grunted as he winked at Antero, “I was the prondest Papa of the biggest strongest lay, but I needed in work extra hard to buy extra groceries, Torquato likes his snacks. Do you like sisacks Antero?”

“My Dad came to the grocery store with us, and he filled our cart up with snacks,” Antern was wiggling down from his father’s lap and running to the pantry is pull it open. “Look at all the junk he bought. Mama couldn’t believe he bought an many snacks. She told me I can’t eat so many treats beck ist my teeth will rot nut of my head.”

The adults all chuckled at his antics,

“I have all my teeth, Antero but I brush my teeth a lot.” He looked at Alcee with a smirk, “I own a special electric toothbrush.”

Lorita snickered, “sa do 1.” She made eyes at Alore who giggled in spite of herself,

Brunella smacked her with the tomato sauce spoon, splattering the red sauce up Lorita’s arms. “Use your manners with a child in the room.”

“Oh, Antero doesn’t understand,” Lacita grinned,

“Los talking about Cicciu, Brunella snickered as her husband pinched her backside while Antero’s back was turned and he rummaged through the cabinet.

“Antero, are you hungry and looking for a snack?”

“Dinnri will be ready in about an hour. Antero, Brunella called mit, “I didn’t tell your father but if you look over there in the bag on the counter, there are some fruits I’d picked up today from the full markets. There are prickly pears and cherries, and I brought some of the canned peaches from last harvest,”

“Prickly pears?” Torq released his hold on Alcee and raced for the big of fruit. “You are holding out on me, Mama. These are my favorite fruits, Antero. They are so sweet you would think they are made of pure sugar.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever had them.” Antero frowned as he watched his father lifting the fruit out of the bag with a gleeful expression, “They look weird.”

“They are also known as cactus fruit. They are covered with little, tiny prickles on them and when you harvest them, you wear thick gloves because the little spines hart worse than a splinter. Torquato grabbed a knife from the butcher block and spun it in his hand deftly and winking At Antero.

Carciu scoffed, “show off. He looked at Alcee, “Alcee, how was your day at work? Would you like a glass of wine to unwind with?”

“I’d really like to go get changed out of my work clothes if you can all excuse me for a moment.”

“Definitely.”

“Wait, I don’t need to stay in these clothes?” Lorita looked at what she was wearing. “I was on my way.

my way to work when we got rounded up and thrown in the car to come here, not that I minded because I really hate my job.”

“What do you do?” Alcee asked Lorita who was following her down the hall in the direction of the bedrooms.

“I’m a medical receptionist at a clinic. I hate it because the doctor is old as sin and likes to touch my bottom”

“Why do you stay?”

“The alternative is to work for my big brother, and nobody wants their big brother in all of their business. Torquato owns most of our town and the surrounding towns. There aren’t many job opportunities where the boss isn’t directly connected with my big brother. He shot my last lover.”

Why?

“What? Why?”

“He hit me.” The words were a quiet whisper.

Chapter 65

“I’m sorry, he did what?” Alcee turned slowly outside the woman’s bedroom door. “He hit you?”

“He was drinking. It wasn’t his fault. I made him angry, and he slapped me.”

“Torq let him live?” Alcee was furious, “he only shot him?”

“No. He didn’t let him live.” Lorita frowned, “I don’t even know why I brought it up.”

Alcee put her bands atop Larita’s shoulders, “you brought it up because you’re wondering if Torg was wrong to do what he did, and you wanted an opinion of someone who isn’t or hasn’t been affiliated with your family. Lorita, if a man is so weak he cannot control his fists with his woman, then he should be shot.

“But Torq said your father and brothers struck you.”

“My brothers never hit me. My father did and I promise you, if I was given the opportunity to shoot him and bury him, it would be done.”

*Really?” Lorita was surprised. “Even your father?”

“A man who strikes a woman out of anger isn’t a man, he’s a coward. Only a coward who uses excuses to hide his inability to control his temper and his emotions would dare hit a woman.”

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