Regrets of the Don: His Beloved Walked Away novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: The Fifth Man
Nobody moved.
Then everybody turned to look at Ricky Palumbo.
He was standing between Cesare's two men with his splinted hand held against his chest.
"That's not..." he said. "Those tests are wrong all the time. Everybody knows that."
"Ninety-nine point nine," Connie said from beside the cake. "That's not wrong all the time, Ricky. That's math."
"It was her idea!" Ricky pointed at Valentina with the splint. "The whole thing! She said he'd never ask. She said he'd pay forever!"
Valentina's face went white, then red.
"You liar," she said. "You told me to. You said your father would cut you off if you married me."
"You said it was my baby or nobody's!"
"I said..."
She stopped.
She heard it, the same second everybody else did.
There was nothing left to say that wasn't a confession.
The woman in red sequins put her champagne glass down on the bar very carefully.
"Five men," she said, loud enough for the room. "Five, at that church. We all laughed at the bride."
She looked at me, and then she looked at my sister.
"And not one of them stayed with you either, did he, honey?"
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