Bound by Honor novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Her Mother's Chain
The dress was plain ivory, long in the sleeve, with nothing on it to catch.
I had picked it myself from a rack in a Bay Ridge shop, in ten minutes, because I had a church to plan.
Nonna stood behind me in the garden-floor bedroom at nine in the morning, holding my hair off my neck.
My mother's gold chain lay in her other palm.
"The clasp is bent," she said. "I will mend it."
"There isn't time."
"There is always time to close a chain, cara."
She went to the dresser, took out a tiny pair of pliers from a sewing box, and bent the clasp straight in four careful turns.
Then she stood behind me again and fastened it at the nape of my neck.
The chain was cool on my skin, and it weighed almost nothing.
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