“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 shaking a little and I was very nervous. I didn’t know what to expect today, and that made me anxious. Today was going to be the day to get some answers from Mario. There was no saying whether he would answer me readily, or whether he would refuse. I didn’t know what kind of ways Matteo would have to get someone like Mario to talk. I would expect that Mario would have some experience in tortures, and somehow, I think it is not going to be easy to get my answers. 


There are still several questions that kept running through my mind. There are still things that I don’t understand, but I would like to understand. I wanted to know why my mom ran from him all those years ago, and why she got caught up in the money laundering. I had my suspicions, but I wanted to see if I could get a plausible answer to it from Mario. 


Chapter 71