I Vanished with the Don's True Heir novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Pass
"What number?" I said.
Orsola turned off the sign herself.
In the dark, she said, "The day he buried me."
We left at four in the morning.
Livio drove. Orsola sat by the window with the shotgun on the floor between her boots. I sat in the middle with my knees against the dash and Lina rolling over every time we hit a pothole.
The heater had two settings.
Livio tried the first one for twenty minutes and turned it to the second.
"It's furnace," he said.
"I know what it is," said his mother.
"How do you turn it down?"
"You don't. You open a window."
He opened his window.
Orsola closed hers.
I sat between them and didn't trust myself to speak for a hundred miles.
Somewhere in New Hampshire, Orsola fell asleep against the door.
Livio drove with one hand at the bottom of the wheel.
"She snores," he said quietly.
"So do you."
"I don't."
"Like a boat engine. Every night for two years."
He was quiet for a mile.
"I didn't know that," he said. "That I get it from her."
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