Bound by Love novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Without a Vote
Every captain in Cleveland was at the long table by noon, and the chair at the foot was empty.
Osvaldo came in last, between two guards, with his hands free and his cardigan buttoned wrong.
He walked the length of the room and stopped at his own chair, and no one pulled it out for him.
I sat at Adriano's right hand with my chin up, in a dark dress, and my hands folded over my stomach.
My husband stayed on his feet at the head.
"Uncle," he said. "The old law gives you the last word."
"It does."
Osvaldo laid his hands on the back of the chair.
"Gentlemen, I will not insult you," he said. "I paid for a lie, and the lie is out."
"I paid it so this family would not fall into the hands of a wounded boy."
"I have stood behind him for eleven years, every day."
"Now he has taken a wife from the family that sells its daughters and its docks."
"He has put the Corsini seal in her hands."
"I ask the table for a vote to take the chair from him."
He looked down the line of faces.
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