I Vanished with the Don's True Heir novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: Two in the Morning
The nine wives at the long table put down their forks.
Achille came across the dining room.
He came straight through the swinging door into my kitchen, and his two men stayed out front with the wives.
"Caterina." He held the roses out to me across the pass. "Welcome home. We were all so worried."
I didn't take them. I finished plating the nine cannoli.
He set the roses on the steel beside the cannoli. "You're very brave. Everyone says so."
"My wife tells me you've been very busy on Tuesdays." He leaned on the pass, easy, the way he leaned on the back of every chair at every Sunday dinner. "I only worry. A woman this far along, on her feet all day. Hot oil. Wet floors. Knives everywhere."
The fry cook's basket stopped halfway out of the oil.
"Accidents happen," Achille said gently. "Especially in families where nobody can keep quiet."
I looked at him for a long moment.
Then I turned around to the line.
"I want to make sure," I said. "Did everybody on this line hear Mr. Falcone say accidents happen to women who don't keep quiet?"
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