“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 didn’t think I would ever get used to the ease with which these people talk about ending a person’s life. Or discussed the beating of a human being until they blacked out and beyond. It was truly appalling. Especially if it concerned your own body being beaten, or a loved one being killed. 


I blinked a few times and shook my head to try to wrap my head around what he just proposed. 


“You say I need to kill Matteo, or I will get killed?”, I summarized his proposal in my own words. I couldn’t believe that I would have summarized this correctly. There was no way. 


“Yes, exactly that. And when you kill Matteo, you will be head of the Bruno famiglia.”, he said. Mario had an interesting choice of words. Not if, but when I kill Matteo. Like it was a given. 


Chapter 64