“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 was lying on a bed, in Matteo’s house. I understood why it was the best scenario to recover here, but that didn’t mean I was happy about it. He listened to me finally when I begged him not to put me in his bedroom. So, here I was, in a guest room. 


I had been home with Guilia and Valeria because Matteo didn’t want me to be alone, not even for a second. Again, I could understand his reasoning, but I didn’t like it. I was glad to have Valeria and Guilia there. For a minute, I had been afraid that Matteo wanted to come with me himself. 


Chapter 68