Chapter 29

“I Dante just saw Kat. She looks much better,” Maximo says as he takes the seat on the opposite side of my desk. “Yeah,” I say with a sigh that shakes my bones. Even the mention of her name makes the guilt surge in my chest as though it’s going to crush me. “You did what you had to, compagno.” “The baby could have died, Max. She could have died. I just left her there.” “You didn’t just leave her. You had Maria taking her food and keeping an eye on her.” “She tried to tell me Kat was sick, but I wouldn’t listen. I thought it was some ploy to get my attention. If Joey hadn’t…” “But she did and Kat and the baby are both fine. You had your reasons, D. She tried to run out on you with your kid. What if she’d made it?” I grind my teeth and my jaw aches in protest. I don’t want to think about what might have happened if she’d managed to get away from me, so I change the subject. “We saw the baby, you know? They did an internal ultrasound and we saw it on a screen. I mean, you could hardly see