“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 had completely forgotten that I was there to ask Matteo for a favor. Instead, he helped me get back into my clothes and carried me upstairs. Caringly, he laid me down on the bed, caressing my hair as he looked down on me. 


“You are so beautiful and so receptive.”, he said. I looked into his eyes and saw the love that he was struggling to voice to me. “Please come and interrupt my meetings anytime, cara mia.”, he added. 


“I didn’t mean to.”, I protested, but he stopped me immediately as I did by holding up his hand. More and more he was showing me who he was, and I liked it. I could see how he got to be the leader of a group of criminals. 


Chapter 47