I Bought His Love, Then He Became the Don novel · Chapter 61 of 76

Chapter 61: Envelope One

"Which three?" I said.

"The gold pinky ring. The one who held the veil at your shop. And the one with the bad hip."

"Tell the table I'm sitting tomorrow night," I said. "Nine o'clock. All seven."

"All seven, Donna."

In the morning I went up the shop stairs before I unlocked the door.

Dad was at his kitchen table in his undershirt with the crossword, a bandage on his elbow.

"Where's the book?" I said.

He didn't ask which book.

He got up on the dented cane and went to the shelf over the stove, and came back with my mother's button can.

He took the lid off. Under the buttons, wrapped in a dish towel, was a black drugstore notebook.

"What does the first envelope say?" I said.

"Read it tonight. Down the side. In pencil."

He put it in my hands.

"Not to me," he said. "To them."

At nine Damiano walked me down Taylor Street to the red awning.

He sat down on the bench between two old men with their espresso.

"Go read," he said.

Seven old men sat down both sides of the long table.

Augusto was in the first seat on the left, in a gray suit and a plain green tie.

I sat down in the chair at the head.

The pinky ring didn't wait for coffee.

"With respect, Donna. Your husband put a man's face on a car hood in front of the bakery."

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