My Don Married My Pregnant Sister So I Choose His Mafia Rival novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: The Card

I picked up the emerald off my logbook.

It was warm from her hand.

I put it in my coat pocket without looking at it.

"Say it again," I said.

"I'm not saying it again." Angelina wiped her face with the blanket. "I said it once. That's more than I've said to a priest."

"You watched him shoot Papa."

"Yes."

"And you married him."

"Yes." She looked straight at me, chin up, the way she'd looked at me in her towel on my wedding morning. "That's what the card was for. If he ever tried to leave me, I'd have it. If he ever tried to hurt me, I'd have it. I was going to be the Don's wife, Marcella. Not the Don's girl in a car."

"You swore to the agent that Ettore did it."

"Cosimo wrote it out. I signed it." Her mouth twisted. "He said it would put your husband away and get you back on your knees. I liked that part."

I wanted to hit her.

I had never wanted to hit anyone so much in my life.

I put both hands flat on the chart table instead and held on.

"Did you watch the card?"

"Once. On my phone, that first week. Up to the gun." Her voice thinned out. "I turned it off. I never watched the rest."

"Who held the light?"

She blinked.

"What light?"

"Somebody held a flashlight on that pier, or you'd never have seen a thing from the land end at midnight."

She was quiet a long moment.

"His driver," she said. "I always thought."

At eight the next morning, Assunta stood in her front hall in her navy church hat with a tray of sfogliatelle wrapped in a dish towel.

"What's that for?" I said.

"Manners."

Angelina came down the stairs in my old jeans, rolled four times at the ankle, and a sweater of mine that fell to her knees.

Assunta looked at her.

Angelina looked at the floor.

"You'll ride in the back," my grandmother said. "Eat something first. You look like a drowned cat."

That was all she said to her.

It was more than I'd have managed.

Ettore's underboss drove us.

He didn't ask why.

He'd heard about the shower by midnight.

At the top of Todt Hill, the gate to Papa's house was shut.

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