The Don's Wife Never Looks Back novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Headline
I read it standing in Mama's front hall in my socks, with the door still open and the old lady watching my face.
The reporter had given Livia half a page.
She'd been an orphan. She'd been returned to St. Agnes at nine.
She'd found her birth mother at last, a humble seamstress, and worked for six years in the same household just to be near her.
Then the don's wife had found out.
The don's wife, who stood to inherit the seamstress's house and a fifty-thousand-dollar life insurance policy from the parish.
The don's wife, who left her dying mother at a party, and two weeks later was photographed on a roof with her lover.
The don's wife, who had turned the don against the real daughter and had her thrown out of the house with one suitcase.
There was the roof photo, cropped so you could see my face.
There was Livia's wrist, turned up to the camera.
The birthmark was in focus.
"Mira, honey," the old lady said. "Nobody on this street believes a word of it."
"Everybody else will."
"Everybody else didn't know your mother."
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