The Don's Dying Wish novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: The Annulment

I sat up in the bed and pulled the sheet with me.

"Say that again."

"They're in the box," Marcello said. "Under the ledger. I signed them..."

"I heard where they are."

I got out of bed.

I found my dress on the floor and put it on in the dark, and my hands didn't work right on the zipper.

"Vittoria."

"You had a lawyer in my house."

"My mother's lawyer."

"In my house. While I was at the cemetery burying a man for free." I turned around. "And you didn't tell me. Through the first kiss. Through Saturday. Through tonight."

He sat up.

"I signed it the week I couldn't stand," he said. "You'd married a body to save your roof. You were sleeping on a couch. You had a man with picks at your back door because of me."

"I know who was at my back door."

"I wanted you to have a way out that didn't cost you anything." His voice was low and steady, and that made it worse. "My mother left me money she never let anyone touch. Not my father. Not Tiziana. The lawyer pays your debt out of it the day you sign. Every cent. The building's yours, and you never have to see a Brancato again."

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