“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

After spending a couple of days at Matteo’s house, I started to feel antsy. I had been living on my own for so long, that I was missing my space. The fact that his family just walked into the house at their leisure made me feel restless as well. It felt like being watched all the time, and I could not relax anywhere else than the bedroom. 


When I had told Matteo that I was going to call around to get people to fix my apartment, he told me that he was already on it. However, he was not ready to tell me when it was going to be finished. I don’t know whether it was because he didn’t know, or whether he didn’t want me to leave. 


All I knew was that I was ready to have my own space again where I could invite my friends and have a relaxing time. Matteo didn’t seem too accepting of that though. 


Chapter 48