The Don's Wife Was Never Weak novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Nina
Gianni dropped the clipboard.
He had his arm around my back before it hit the concrete.
"Okay," he said. "Okay. We're going."
"It's six weeks early."
"I know. Walk with me."
"Gianni, it's six weeks..."
"I know, Talia. Walk with me. Look at me, not the water."
I looked at him.
His face was completely calm.
His hand on my back was shaking.
The foreman's wife saw us from the gate and understood in one second.
She jumped down from the truck step and started shouting.
By the time we reached the Buick, the big shy kid had the passenger door open.
He'd spread the yellow blanket from the shower over the seat.
"For the water," he said, bright red.
"Thank you, sweetheart."
"Call my mother," I told the foreman's wife.
"Already dialing."
Gianni drove the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
He drove the shoulder past a stalled bus.
He drove through a yellow on Atlantic Avenue that was mostly red.
The first real pain hit me on the Manhattan Bridge.
It came up from my spine and wrapped all the way around, and I grabbed the door handle and made a sound I didn't recognize.
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