The Italian I Was Never Supposed to Understand novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: Chiara's Sentence
"That isn't true," I said.
"Which part?"
"Most of it. She gave him the cards. She picked me. She took the steakhouse money." I sat down on Pina's desk. "But the shell company was his mother's plan. It's in her own email."
"I've read the email," said the assistant DA. "I also have his sworn statement, and Ms. Fabbri's deal depends a great deal on what you tell me."
"Then I'll tell you what I promised her in La Morra. She came forward with the evidence. All of it. Before anybody made her."
"And leniency?"
I looked out through the glass wall at the sales office.
Eight desks. The gold chain on the phone. The woman with the bob laughing at something.
"No," I said. "I'm not asking for leniency. I'm asking you to get it right."
In the second week of December, Tommaso and I flew back to Piedmont for one morning in a courtroom in Alba.
It was a small high room with tall windows and a crucifix over the judge.
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