Oops, My Online Ex Is the Mafia Don novel · Chapter 30 of 32

Chapter 30: Nonna's Garden

"Yes," I said. "Looking at me, Dad. The whole way."

He nodded hard, three or four times, and didn't say anything else all the way up the hill.

At the gate he took my hand and squeezed it once.

Then he went in to help Nonna with the dishes, and she let him.

We got married again on Saturday, May fifteenth, in Nonna's garden.

Forty chairs on the grass, between the tomato cages and the fig tree.

No basket for phones at the gate.

Anybody could take a picture of anybody.

Rosalba took four hundred.

I wore the yellow dress.

The same one from the white box with the black ribbon.

Soft as butter, with the tiers of tulle and the black velvet bow at the waist.

It was exactly the kind of dress I would have picked.

So this time I picked it.

Bernie zipped me into it in the blue room with a bobby pin in her teeth.

"Any day," she said around it. "Page four. You walk, I drive."

"There's no page four anymore."

"I know." She took the pin out and fixed my bow. "I just like saying it."

There was a knock.

My father came in, in a navy suit he'd bought, not rented.

He looked at the dress.

Then he looked at my face.

He kept looking at it.

"Two hundred and forty days," he said. "I counted this morning, in case you asked."

"I wasn't going to ask."

"I know. I wanted to say it."

He held out his arm.

I took it.

We walked out through the long kitchen and down the stone steps into the garden.

He looked at me the whole way, like he'd promised.

He tripped on a tomato stake.

I held him up.

We were both laughing when we got to the fig tree.

Luciano was waiting under it.

Charcoal suit, collar open, no tie.

Reading glasses in his breast pocket, where everybody could see them.

His hands were cold again when my father put mine into them.

"You're nervous," I whispered.

"I'm always nervous with you."

"The Don is nervous."

"Bee."

"You're allowed to call me that now."

"I know," he said. "I'm going to do it constantly."

It was the same old priest.

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