The Don's Wife Was Never Weak novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Terms
The Mercedes rolled up the cobbles and was gone.
Renzo stood in the work light with blue tile dust on his shoes.
Nobody moved for a long time.
Then the consigliere walked over and put his hand on Renzo's shoulder.
"Come," he said. "Let the lady lock her gate."
Renzo let himself be led to his car.
He didn't look at me.
I didn't need him to.
It took Philadelphia nine weeks to start pulling.
First the restaurant on Hylan Boulevard got a letter calling its loan.
Then the one in Tottenville.
Then Sabatini Trucking couldn't make payroll on a Friday, and half the drivers didn't come in Monday.
The captains' envelopes came late.
Then they came light.
By the middle of March two of Renzo's soldiers were unloading containers on my pier for honest wages, and they were glad of the work.
I was thirty-two weeks along and as big as a refrigerator.
On the third Sunday in March the dock wives threw me a baby shower in the bakery.
They hung pink and blue streamers from the ceiling because nobody knew which.
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