The Don's Wife Was Never Weak novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Four in the Morning
I held the card out to my mother without a word.
She read it, and her mouth went thin.
Then she stood up, lifted the whole vase off the windowsill, and carried it out into the hallway.
I heard her ask the nurse where the nearest garbage chute was.
Gianni read the card twice.
Then he put it in his wallet.
"Evidence," he said. "Your lawyer will want it."
"She's in New York."
"She's somewhere a florist delivers." He pulled a chair to the side of the bed and sat in it. "I'm not going anywhere. Sleep."
I slept.
Nina stayed in the nursery eleven days, learning to eat.
She learned fast.
She learned everything fast, the nurse with gray braids said.
We brought her home to the bakery on a Thursday at the end of April.
My mother had cleared out my old room and painted it yellow, to match the blanket.
The crew had built a crib out of wood from a Sicilian shipping pallet and sanded it until it felt like silk.
The foreman's wife had sewn the mattress cover.
Gianni had carried it up the stairs himself and then lain on the floor for twenty minutes checking every screw.
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