The Don's Secret Wife Was Mafia Royalty novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Lights Out
I laughed, sitting on my bedroom floor with blood on my stairs.
"She wants you to bring the pan," I told Benedetta.
Benedetta raised the skillet over her head.
Teo's man got nine stitches at Rush and was back on my sidewalk by morning.
Teo put four more beside him and two in the alley.
On Thanksgiving, Benedetta made a rule.
"He eats upstairs," she said. "At the table. With a fork. I'm not watching my brother eat turkey off a flour bin like a raccoon."
So for the first time since the twins were born, Teo came up my stairs and sat down at my kitchen table.
The old baker carved.
Benedetta said grace, which was mostly a list of people she wanted to hit with a pan.
My son screamed through the whole thing because he had opinions about gas.
My daughter fell asleep on her father's shoulder halfway through the mashed potatoes.
Teo ate one-handed for an hour rather than move her.
Once, reaching for the gravy, his knuckles brushed mine, and he took his hand back.
On Sunday at two the dining room at the Morra house was full again.
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