“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

I don’t remember how long we stayed like that, but it felt comfortable. It felt a lot like something I haven’t felt for a long time and that I vowed to myself to never feel. Feelings of love do not combine with mafia well, quite the contrary actually. They make you vulnerable. I don’t like to be vulnerable to my enemies. 


I chuckled when I heard Lily’s stomach rumble and helped her up at that point to move to the couch. First though, I reached for my phone to order some pizza. We needed to eat soon, so after that call we moved to the living room. 


I didn’t notice Lily freeze in the doorway, so I bumped into her. I quickly grabbed her shoulders to keep me from falling. 


“What’s wrong?”, I asked her, curious to understand what made her stop so suddenly. 


“I was going through my mom’s stuff before you came. It confused me so much.”, she said, as she made her way to the couch and sat down. I went to sit next to her. 


Chapter 32