He Used My Pregnancies to Cure His Mistress, So I Told Every Family novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Four Names
"First," I said. "The clinic burns, and the three I lost get a stone with their own names."
"Granted," said the old Don.
"Second. Gina Pellegrino and her sister are never touched, never followed, and never asked to say what they carried out of that building."
He looked at the two women in the second pew.
"Granted."
"Third. My father's local goes back to the men he stood beside, and the money from the Barzini house goes to the widows on the docks before it goes to anyone's pocket."
"That is a good deal of money," said the camel coat.
"My father's friends carried his coffin, Don. Ask them what they were paid."
The camel coat looked at his hat and said nothing more.
"Granted," said the old man. "And the fourth?"
I turned and looked at every face in those pews.
"My daughter is nobody's heir," I said. "No family at this table will ever put her name in a ledger, a will or a bargain. She belongs to me, and to the man who carried her out."
Nico stood against the wall with his bandaged hands at his sides.
Every head went to him, and he did not look away from one of them.
The old Don let the silence go on.
"Write it in the minutes," he said at last. "The daughter of Elena Ruggieri is her own."
Nico drove me to Bayonne in the afternoon.
The flat above the bakery had a window now that let in the sun, and Gina's sister had pulled the isolette in front of it.
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