58

LORENA

“You already said you won’t believe anything I say, so why should I bother? Since you obviously stole my gun here with a sole mission in mind—killing me with it. Why don’t you get on with it?”

“You asshole…” My voice breaks before I recover it. “You won’t even try?”

“You’re my only wife. I only wanted to reach an agreement with your family due to that fact. I went behind your back because I knew you’d never allow such a meeting to happen. I didn’t try to kill you and never will. I’ve been going fucking crazy for the past couple of months until the moment Luca said you were alive. I only half believed him until I saw you in Tuscany. There. I tried. Do you believe me and the fake marriage with Simona was to convince the older Don to relinquish power to me?”

He says the words with an ease that’s hard to take seriously, let alone believe.

He’s telling me what I want to hear just so he can play with me again.

Fool me again.

This time, kill me for real.