My Don Married My Pregnant Sister So I Choose His Mafia Rival novel · Chapter 6 of 32

Chapter 6: The Zipper

I took the envelope out of her hand.

"Tell him I'll be there."

"He knew you would." Angelina looked past me, down the hall, at Ettore in Nonna's dining room doorway. "He says you always need an audience."

"Then he should stop giving me one."

She turned and went down the steps in her cream heels.

Cosimo's driver was waiting at the curb.

He didn't get out to open her door.

She opened it herself.

Ettore didn't say a word all the way back to Red Hook.

He said it on the roof.

The pigeons were coming home in the dusk, in twos and threes, dropping out of the orange sky onto the landing board.

He stood by the coop and counted them without looking.

"Give me the word," he said.

"What word?"

"Any word. Yes. Go. Now." He didn't turn around.

"Cosimo drives home from the Bay Ridge christening on Saturday night on the Belt Parkway. He'll have one car in front and none behind, because he thinks nobody in this city has the nerve. He never sees Sunday."

The pigeons cooed in the coop.

I knew he meant it.

That was the strange part.

It didn't scare me.

It made something in my chest go very still and very warm.

"No," I said.

He turned.

"He burned your boat with a man inside it. He jammed the hatch."

"I know what he did."

"Then let me finish it."

"If you kill him," I said, "he's a martyr. Ornella puts on black and cries at every table in the city, and the families remember a Varrone Don murdered by a Sarno. Again." I came across the roof to him.

"And nobody ever has to look at what he did. He goes into the ground clean."

"And your way?"

"My way, he stands in front of every family that trusted him and watches them find out. Alive." I stopped close enough to see the gray in his beard.

"I want him to see it coming one envelope at a time. I want him to lose his chair sitting in it."

He looked at me for a long moment.

"You're more frightening than I am," he said.

"I'm a Cardone. We just don't brag about it."

"And if he comes for you while you're sealing envelopes?"

"Then you're under the same roof as me. Clause five."

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