The Don's Wife Was Never Weak novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Visiting Hours
Nobody at the table moved.
The captains sat with their hands flat on the cloth, the way they'd been told.
The consigliere had taken his glasses off again.
The agent in front read Renzo his rights in a flat, bored voice.
Renzo didn't listen to her.
He kept looking at me.
"Talia," he said. "My mother."
"I'll go to her."
"Don't let her find out on the news."
"I won't."
They walked him out through the dining room in his shirtsleeves.
Past the families.
Past the priests, who had stopped eating.
Past the bar where he had torn my divorce papers in half and dropped them at my feet.
At the door he turned his head and looked back at the round table.
I was still sitting in the chair he'd pulled out for me.
Then he was gone, and the room started breathing again.
One of the agents stopped by my chair on her way out and laid a card on the tablecloth.
"Ms. Conforti," she said. "We'll want to talk to you."
"I'm sure you will."
I drove to Todt Hill myself.
Renzo's mother opened her own front door.
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