“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

When I wasn’t forced by Chiara to talk to Adriana, I was sitting and staring in Matteo’s house. I didn’t have anything to do, but I also didn’t know what I wanted to do. Everything seemed pointless, but at least the sun was shining today. I dragged myself to the porch today, to sit and stare there. 


“Lily!”, Guilia yelled and waved from afar when she saw me sitting there. “My savior! Come, I need your help.”, she said and dragged me out of my comfy chair. I tried to protest, but she was not hearing it. Like, literally not hearing it, because she just kept talking to shut me out, and meanwhile dragging me to her office. 


“Here, sit.”, she said, and then she placed a big cup of coffee in front of me. “Have a look at this, will you? I know it is making a profit. A small one, I admit, but what am I doing wrong? No matter what I do, it ends up showing a loss.”, she said aggravated. Reluctantly, I picked up the paper she placed in front of me, and I went over the numbers. 


Chapter 69