“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 just let her go?”, Vita asked, her eyes wide in surprise. I nodded. 


“Just like that, you let her go?”, she asked again, as if she couldn’t believe what I had done. 


“Yes, Vita, I let her go. What did you want me to do? Lock her up?”, I asked, hoping I added enough sarcasm to my voice to make her understand I didn’t mean the last part. 


“But we don’t even know what happened!”, she shouted, throwing her hands up in the air out of despair. To say that Vita is a drama queen is an understatement. 


“Well, if I kept her here against her will, she would for sure not tell me.”, I said calmly. Vita screamed in frustration while she paced the room. “You didn’t hear anything on the streets?”, I asked her, to which Vita shook her head. 


“You better keep close to Lily.”, Vita threatened me. I just shook my head at her threat. 


Chapter 37