The Viper Donna: Stepmother's Mafia Justice novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Verdict
Nonna crossed the carpet and stood in front of her son.
He was fifty-five years old, with a split lip and silver hair in his eyes.
He looked up at her.
"You were the clever one," she said. "Aurelio worked, and you talked. I let you talk because I thought words were harmless."
"Mamma."
"You sat at my table on Thursday night and drank my coffee. You knew your brother was dead by your order, and you asked me for the salt."
"I did it for the family."
"You did it for the chair." She said it without heat. "A man who does it for the family doesn't burn the family's money."
She reached out and took his hand.
Carmine flinched, as if he thought she would strike him.
She turned it palm up and pulled the diamond ring off his little finger with one hard twist, and the knuckle bled.
"This was your father's," she said. "It never belonged on you."
She set it on the walnut table in front of me.
"I give this to the children," she said. "When they're grown, they will know what it cost."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The Viper Donna: Stepmother's Mafia Justice are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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