The Viper Donna: Stepmother's Mafia Justice novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Santo
I left the children at Nonna's table with a plate of warm rolls each.
Then I drove the Lincoln to Bayonne without the radio on.
The tailor shop sign was dark, and the street door stood unlocked.
I climbed the stairs.
The bedroom door was open, and Santo stood by the bed, folding a shirt into a duffel bag.
He looked up and went still.
"You're packing," I said.
"I'm making room."
"For whom?"
"For you. For the house. For the Donna of the Marzano family, who needs a husband's seat that isn't taken by her children's driver."
"Our children's father," I said.
He closed the bag, very slowly.
"I'm not asking for anything, Viviana. I want you to hear that. I'm not asking for the name, or the room, or the chair."
"I wouldn't take a claim on them. Aurelio signed those papers, and he earned them. I'll drive, I'll stand outside the door. I'll be where I was for twelve years, near enough to see them."
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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