The Don's Secret Wife Was Mafia Royalty novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: By Blood and a Vote
"You're what?" I said.
"Moving in. Are you deaf as well as late?" She tapped the suitcases with her cane.
"That house has forty rooms, and he walked through every one of them for thirty years. I can smell his cologne in the curtains."
"Nonna, you can't do stairs."
"Then somebody will carry me."
The old bodyguard woke up on the flour bin and said, "Somebody will carry her."
"I'm eighty-two," she said. "My heart is a bag of wet paper. I'd like to spend whatever's left of it listening to my great-grandchildren scream. Where do I sleep?"
Benedetta was standing in the kitchen doorway in her pajamas.
She'd heard everything.
"She can have the yellow room," she said. "I'll take the couch."
"Benny, no."
"Benny, yes. She's ninety pounds and she scares me. I want her where I can see her."
My grandmother looked at Benedetta for a long moment.
"You're the one with the frying pan," she said.
"Yes, Donna."
"Good. You can stay too."
By Monday, Teo had a chair lift on my back stairs.
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