Don, Your Regret Can't Keep Me novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Beads
Mauro looked at my finger on his mouth.
Then he kissed it, once, and stepped back.
"How?" he said.
"You're a Don. Figure it out."
"I've never earned anything in my life. My father handed me all of it."
"I know," I said. "That's the problem."
He picked up his paper bag and went to the door.
"Is Ma Zito's rent still on the first?"
On New Year's morning he picked me up on Passyunk in his own car.
He drove it himself.
Mrs. Zito opened her door in a housecoat with her hair in pins.
"Mauro." She looked at me. "Giada. It's eight in the morning. Nobody's dead?"
"Nobody's dead, Ma."
He held out an envelope.
It was plain white, not fat.
On the front, in square hard print, it said, For Ma. From Mauro.
"No more under the door," he said. "No more from him. From me, every first, and I bring it."
Mrs. Zito took it.
She looked at the handwriting for a long time.
Then she reached up and took the old envelope off the mantel, the fat one with the hooked capitals.
She put it in his hand.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Don, Your Regret Can't Keep Me are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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