The Don's Secret Twins novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Penance
Ezio took the phone off speaker and walked out into the courtyard with it.
I heard him say, "Then let them," and hang up.
He came back in and poured me coffee.
"Every name you used," he said. "Every man who paid your rent. How many men paid your rent?"
"One. And he was paid by your uncle."
"Then that's a short trial."
It was the first time I'd laughed in a week.
The monitor came off on Monday.
The judge's clerk cut the strap with scissors from her desk drawer.
On the second Sunday in January he asked Fia's father for a place at the Barone table.
Fia's father said yes, on one condition.
"You bring your men," he said. "All of them. I want to see their faces at my table."
So at one o'clock, after Mass, the back room of the bakery filled up.
Barones on one side of the long table, the way they'd sat in October.
On the other side, Severinos.
The three old men who'd stayed.
The capo with the wine stain on his tie, who'd blocked the aisle.
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