“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

Matteo was set on joining me to meet Jelena. According to his logic, he wanted to protect me if I was going to a situation where I didn’t know what was going to happen. Nevertheless, I was happy that he was joining me because I was nervous. 


Matteo smiled when he looked over at me, and squeezed the hand he grabbed in a gesture to support me. I felt happy and excited in that moment. Finally, we were on our way to getting some answers. Answers that I have been searching for some time already. 


It was quite a drive out to where Jelena lived, so I had plenty of time to get even more nervous. However, nothing was comparable to how nervous I got when we finally parked in front of her house. My heart jumped in my throat at the idea of having to ring the doorbell. I checked for the tenth time to see if the picture of my mom and Mario was still in my bag. Matteo chuckled at the sight of me. 


Chapter 53