The Viper Donna: Stepmother's Mafia Justice novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Ash
The Marzano Social Club burned until the sky over Jersey City turned gray.
We stood across the street behind the fire line, with the smell of wet ash in our mouths.
The driver was in a van with two of the old don's men, bound for Brooklyn.
Santo's phone was in my pocket, with every word of his confession on it.
The long low room was gone.
The roof had fallen in, and the sign still hung over the door, black and curling.
"The safe," I said.
"Fire-rated," Santo said. "Aurelio bought it in 1998. It might have held."
"Might."
"Carmine thinks it didn't."
The capos stood on the sidewalk in front of the tape, in overcoats thrown over pajamas.
They were capos, the whole of the family's backbone, and not one of them had taken his eyes off the black hole where the card table used to be.
The old capo saw me first.
He took off his hat.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The Viper Donna: Stepmother's Mafia Justice are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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