The Mafia Bride They Rejected Became an Underboss novel · Chapter 11 of 16
Chapter 11: The Seat
Nobody at the table breathed.
My father's voice went on, slow and rough, with the TV murmuring somewhere behind it.
"I'm recording this in the study. It's March. Marcella's at bingo."
My mother pressed her knuckles to her mouth.
"Lorenzo. I know what you did at the Drake."
Lorenzo went rigid in the chair.
"I talked to the man at the front desk. He remembered a girl walking out barefoot at five in the morning with blood on her hands."
A pause. A long breath.
"He said she didn't stop. He said she didn't even look back."
I looked down at the scar on my palm.
"I spent eight years letting everybody tell me my daughter was a tramp who ran off. I let your mother believe it. God forgive me, some nights I believed it too."
His voice shook.
"She's not a tramp. She's the toughest Lombardi who ever lived. And she's been running the whole damn border for a man who's smarter than all of us."
Rafael lowered his eyes.
"So here it is. In front of the families."
My father coughed. I heard him take a sip of something.
"The Lombardi seat goes to Vera. The house, the trucks, the name, all of it. Lorenzo gets nothing. Not a dollar. Not a chair."
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