The Famous Mafioso Hired Me to Hear Him, and the Man in the Cell Is Not Who They Convicted novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Widow's Visit
Teo's POV
She came in person, for the first time in nineteen years, and she wore her flour-dusted apron under her coat.
They had walked me back from the attorney room with my shirt buttoned wrong.
Jo had been taken out through the far door with her head down, and I had not looked at her.
I had learned not to look at the things I needed to survive.
The guards sat me in the legal booth, in the chair beside the one where Jo had sat.
I was still shaking.
I felt the place on my neck where her teeth had been.
Then the door at the end of the corridor opened, and I felt the floor change.
The old man with the mop stopped his bucket.
He looked at me down the length of the block and signed with one hand, in the Buffalo way.
SHE IS HERE.
I did not need him to tell me.
I knew the weight of that walk and the click of small expensive heels.
I knew the hush that goes ahead of a certain kind of woman.
Gianna came in alone.
She had left the lawyer in the car, and the guards waited outside the door.
She sat down on the other side of the glass in her black coat with her bag on her knees.
She looked at me for a long time without speaking.
I looked back.
She had grown old.
On the night of the ferry she had stood in her kitchen at thirty with a baby on her hip and a smooth, clean face.
Now there were lines at the corners of her mouth and gray in her dark hair.
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