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Hit and Run: A Mafia Hitman Romance
Book: Hit and Run: A Mafia Hitman Romance Read Online Free
Author: Vesper Vaughn, Natasha Tanner
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minion for my family, never once stopping to consider the ethics of roughing up other men for a living, my pea-brain can’t help but love you. Maybe one day I’ll consider talking about something other than sex, but that day isn’t today. Forever may we fuck.” Elizabeth ends her speech.
    I applaud. “Well fucking done.”
    She bows her head in recognition of my applause. “It was easy. I just channelled the hairy guys from that insurance commercial. Done.”
    I take a sip from my glass of wine. “One thing, though.”
    “What’s that?”
    “You say that I do what my family wants me to do. We have that in common, I think.”
    Elizabeth rolls her eyes. “I’m marrying you under heavy protest.”
    I shrug. “You work here, don’t you?”
    “And what’s your point?”
    I set down my wine glass and tap my fingers on the glass-covered tabletop. “Eh, you know. Would you be working here if your dad didn’t want you to be?”
    She shrugs, but I think I see tears in her eyes. “It’s not my first choice.”
    “And what is your first choice?”
    She pauses like she’s wondering whether or not it is safe to tell me. “I’ve been wanting to go to college to study chemistry.” She flips her hair over her shoulder. “But my dad worries about my safety. And he’s my family. I want to make him happy.”
    “And having his twenty-something intelligent daughter work as a hostess at a restaurant that never has customers is his way of being happy?”
    Elizabeth’s face turns stony. “You don’t have any right to say that.”
    “I think I do. I’m just calling it like I see it. You’ll learn that about me. That’s just how I am.”
    She leans forward, her eyes flashing with anger. “You have no right. You think I don’t know what you do?” She takes a deep breath like she’s gaining steam. I think she might actually breathe fire in a second. “I know who you are, Cain Maggiano. You’re a thug. You’re muscle. You’re a walking sack of flesh and bones and steel, and you go to people’s homes and threaten them. You’ve probably killed people. You’ve definitely intimidated wives and children. That’s what you do . I might just be some little restaurant hostess, but I know things. You have blood on your hands, one way or another.”
    Her words sting and prick at my skin. It’s my turn, though, and I can give it better than I can take it. “Yeah? Who’s worse? The guy who follows the orders or the guy who gives them?” I look at the back corner of the restaurant at the empty booth where I sat days before with her father and his men. “Your dad is like my dad. They give the orders. They make the decisions. They are the generals. I’m just a soldier.” I drink the last of my wine. “I didn’t sign up to be in my family any more than you signed up to be in yours. You can play high and mighty all you want, princess. But we’re the same, you and me. You just carry menus. I carry a gun. You make cocktails and shrug off the ass pats from men old enough to be your father. I make people bleed and shrug off my guilt as best as I can.” I lean close to her, and her breath catches in her throat. I swear I can hear her heart beating. I stare into her brown eyes. She’s challenging me. This is a standoff. Who’s gonna break first? Not me. “As far as I can tell, you and I are a match made in heaven.”
    The front door of the restaurant opens and both of us pull away from each other. I think for a moment Elizabeth is actually going to kiss me. I look over and see her father wrapped up in furs, his gang of men close behind him.
    “Kids! How in the hell is it going?” he asks ebulliently, walking over to our table. He kisses Elizabeth on the cheek.
    “Hey, Dad,” she says. “Cain and I were just having some dinner and getting to know each other. Like you wanted.” Her voice is dripping with sarcasm.
    Mr. Romano laughs and points at Elizabeth’s nearly-full plate. “Lizzy, you cannot stop eating!
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