The Don's Wife Was Never Weak novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Clean Books
"Talking about what?" I asked.
"About everything she ever saw." The old man put a twenty under his saucer. "She saw a great deal of your husband's house, I understand."
He slid out of the booth and buttoned his cardigan.
"Your father would have liked today," he said. "He'd have hated me for it, but he'd have liked it."
Then he went out to his car, where his son sat in the passenger seat staring straight ahead.
My grilled cheese came.
I ate all of it.
I was nursing, and I was always hungry, and I wasn't going to leave food on a Philadelphia table.
Gianni drove us home up the Turnpike with both hands on the wheel.
"Federal agents," he said after a while.
"I heard."
"She sat in his study for eight months. She had his codes, his safe, his book."
"I know."
"Talia." He glanced at me. "Your books."
I didn't answer.
I watched the refineries go by, the flames on top of the stacks pale in the daylight.
The next morning I was in the trailer at six with my lawyer, ten months of Conforti Freight and a pot of coffee.
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