“So, what will you do next?”, Norah asked. “It will be weird to go on without her.”, I said. Norah squeezed my hand. “We’re here when you need us.”, she said. I smiled sadly; my mom was all the family I had. “Is it weird that I’m not crying?”, I asked. “No.”, Norah answered decisively. “You do what feels right for you and let no one tell you otherwise! I think you are already accepting that she is no longer with us. Mourning is a different process for all of us.” I nodded. She was right. Lily had a normal life, with a normal family, normal job and normal friends. Focused on her career, she made no time for boyfriends. Not that the right ones wanted her anyways... But after her mom's death she is stupified when she learns that she is now the proud owner of 2 houses in Europe and a million dollar trust fund. Turns out, her life is not so boring anymore, her mom never was boring, and the job brings her into more problems than she needed. And the men, they are now fighting for her heart. Will Lily find her happily ever after, or is she already in too deep?

In Too Deep: a mafia story

“So, he didn’t say anything? Not a single clue on where he is taking you?”, Norah asked me for the third time already. I sighed again. 


“No, like I said. He told me he would pick me up at six, and then left before I could even blink.”, I said annoyed. I was shocked, not stupid! 


“Fine, we’ll just have to go for the save middle ground.”, she huffed, as she opened my closet and started to browse through my clothes. She was mumbling to herself, undoubtedly telling herself just how boring my clothes were. I knew her opinion on that. 


“Okay, you undress and put on the first outfit I give you.”, she ordered me. I gave her a mock salute, but she only glared harder at me. I sighed and pulled myself up from my bed and trudged to the bathroom taking the outfit of her hands. 


Chapter 18