The Mafia Bride They Rejected Became an Underboss novel · Chapter 10 of 16
Chapter 10: Empty Gun
The revolver was pointed at the second button of my shirt.
I could see the old nick in the grip where my father had dropped it on the garage floor when I was ten.
He'd taught me to shoot with it.
He'd taught Lorenzo too. Lorenzo had never been any good.
"Put it down," Rafael said.
He said it the way you'd tell a waiter you were ready to order.
"Don't talk to me." Lorenzo swung the barrel toward him, then back to me. "Don't anybody talk to me."
"Lorenzo," my mother said. "That's your father's gun."
"He left me his gun and his debts. He left her everything else."
"He didn't leave me anything," I said.
"He called you!" Lorenzo's voice cracked. "Every Sunday! He never called me. I was right here, and he never called me once."
The Marchetti uncles had pushed their chairs back from the table.
Carina was pressed against the wall with her hands over her ears.
Stefano sat frozen with wine on his cuff.
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