The Don's Secret Wife Was Mafia Royalty novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: Their Names in Court
"First," I said.
"His lawyer will try to make you small," the prosecutor said. "You were fifteen, you were in a cooler, you didn't see a face. He'll say it fast and he'll say it a lot."
She paused.
"Can you sit ten feet from Mr. Cassio and say what you heard?"
I looked across the kitchen.
My grandmother was at the table with my daughter on her lap.
Teo was still in my father's apron.
"I've been waiting thirteen years to sit ten feet from him," I said.
The courthouse at Twenty-Sixth and California was gray stone and metal detectors and a line around the block.
The line was us.
The florist, in her church coat.
The butcher, who had closed his shop on a Monday for the first time since his father's funeral.
The deli sisters, in matching black, already arguing about where to sit.
The hardware brothers, the tailor, the barber, the shoe repair man, the gelato couple.
And behind them, filling the back rows of the gallery, the five families.
The old Don from Elmwood Park sat on the aisle with his cane.
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