“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 sat beside her bed for hours, just looking at her face. I knew she wasn’t going to wake up because she needed to recover first, but I wanted to be there. I felt I needed to be there. Vita had tried a couple of times to get me to leave, but I refused. 


Minutes turned into hours, hours into days. I think it was 3 days in when Chiara came to talk to me. “Matteo, you need to know.”, Chiara clearly didn’t know how to say what she wanted to. “We want to take the medication that keeps her asleep out of her system.”, Chiara started. I looked at her expectantly. “You need to know that her body decides when she wakes up, if she does.”, she finished softly. 


Chapter 67