The Mafia Bride They Rejected Became an Underboss novel · Chapter 14 of 16
Chapter 14: The Commission
Rafael set his cup down on the hall table.
He walked to the door and stood beside me, looking at the driver.
"Tell Don Bruno I'll respect his house," he said. "And tell him if anyone touches her, I won't respect anything."
The driver nodded.
He walked back down the steps to his car.
My mother shut the door and leaned against it.
"He didn't," she said. "Your father. He had a bad heart. The doctor said."
"I know, Mom."
"Lorenzo knows too. He was at the hospital. He signed the papers."
"I know."
She looked at me with red eyes.
"What are you going to do?"
I looked at the hall closet.
The shoebox was in there, behind her winter boots. I'd put it there the night of the dinner, when we came back for Boyd's handcuffs.
"I'm going to show them," I said.
The Palermo Club was a red brick building on Taylor Street with no sign.
It had been there since before my father was born.
Hector drove me to the curb at five to twelve and stopped.
"I'll be right here," he said.
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