“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

‘You’re staying the night when you come to visit Guilia.’ 


What the hell? What happened to actually ask? I do have a life, you know. Anger was my first response when I read his text. I didn’t need him to rule my life. 


‘How about no?’, I sent back. I wasn’t really proud of it, but I had worked so hard to be independent. I didn’t want to throw it all away with the first man I’ve met in a while. But I did want to see him, spend time with him, and fuck him. The problem was that I wasn’t meeting with Guilia before Friday. Today was Monday. That was just too long. 


I guess a busy CEO doesn’t have a lot of time to spend with little old me. I guessed I should be happy with every minute he spends with me. Wait, I should be more positive about myself, because the busy CEO does need me to pump up his profits. 


I put my phone down and went back to work. 


Chapter 34