Bound to the Mob Alpha's Baby novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: The Wives
Vin laughed.
It was short and wrecked, and it bounced off the steel.
"He died the morning of Christmas Eve," he said. "Of course he did. He's still running the Family from inside a box."
"Twenty-eight days," Mickey said.
"And then?"
"And then I dial four numbers in front of everybody, and the door opens itself."
Mickey slid down the vault door until he was sitting on the concrete.
Vin sat down beside him, close, his shoulder against Mickey's.
"Can I?" he said, and Mickey nodded.
Mickey put his head on Vin's shoulder and fell asleep there, on the floor of the vault his dad built.
The time lock ticked behind his back.
Nonna came home on the first of December.
She walked into her kitchen with a cane she refused to lean on and threw out every pot Pietro had ever given her.
There were six.
The sitting room window still had the moon calendar taped to it, with the twenty-fourth circled in red.
On the fifteenth, nine days before it, Pietro moved first.
A boy in a Bianchi's apron came into Mickey's shop at noon with an envelope.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Bound to the Mob Alpha's Baby are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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