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A Ring for a Dead Bride A Mafia Don Driven Mad by Regret
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Before our engagement party began, Celina promised me an entrance straight out of a fairy tale. Celina was the widow of Luca’s personal bodyguard. Her husband had taken a bullet for him. Ever since, every wish she made had become another debt the Vitti family owed her. She left me in the glass conservatory, surrounded by white roses, and locked the door from the outside. Behind the flower stands, dry ice kept pouring out thick white mist. I couldn’t get enough air. My limbs began to give way. I stumbled to the door and pounded on the glass. Celina went over to Luca and told him I was upset because I didn’t like her surprise. “Elena, if you don’t like it, just say so. Don’t take it out on her.” I opened my mouth. All that came out was a thin, broken gasp. My brother Adrian adjusted Celina’s shawl around her shoulders. He was frowning, too. “She’s spent days on this. The least you can do is let her finish.” My hand slid down the glass. I collapsed into the shadows behind the flowers. Celina stopped the recording and urged them to go back to their guests. She would stay with me. Luca looked into the white mist, convinced I needed time to calm down. By the time he walked away, I had taken my last breath.
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A Ring for a Dead Bride A Mafia Don Driven Mad by Regret Chapter 16
My mother went to Florence the following spring.The studio had written after learning what happened. They offered to show her the place where I had worked, if she ever wanted to visit.She kept the letter for months before booking a flight.Adrian drove her to the airport. He arrived early and waited outside with the car.She carried a small suitcase and a photograph of the restored wedding portrait. The conservator had finished the work using my notes. My father’s face was clear again.At the studio, one of my old colleagues recognized the photograph before Mom explained it.“Elena showed us this,” she said. “She was so worried about getting it right.”Mom smiled through her tears.“She worried about everything she loved.”They walked through the rooms together. The colleague pointed out the table where I had fallen asleep, the window I liked, the drawer where someone still kept the pencils I had left behind.For the first time since my death, I saw my mother become curious about som
A Ring for a Dead Bride A Mafia Don Driven Mad by Regret Chapter 15
Before Luca left the estate, my mother came to collect the last of my belongings.She knew what had happened. Rosa had told her privately. Mom had listened, then asked when she could have my things.Now Luca met her beside the waiting car.“The workroom is packed. I checked every box.”She nodded to the driver to begin loading them.“I’ll understand if you never want to see me again,” Luca said.Mom adjusted the strap of her bag.“What do you want me to say to that?”“Nothing.”She looked at him until he lowered his eyes.“Then don’t make it another thing I have to carry.”He stepped away. She got into the car without looking back.At home, there were boxes of my belongings waiting in the spare room. Mom opened one that evening and found the mug I used in the workroom, its handle stained with paint.She washed it, then stopped trying to scrub away the stain.The next morning she drank her coffee from it.That was how the days began to change. Not all at once. A mug taken from a box. A
A Ring for a Dead Bride A Mafia Don Driven Mad by Regret Chapter 14
The captains came to the estate two days after my funeral.They entered through the same doors as the engagement guests. This time, their men stayed outside and nobody brought flowers.Luca sat at the head of the dining table.Matteo took the chair to his right. The consigliere set two folders between them.One held the accounts of my death.The other was thicker.“You asked for time to bury her,” Matteo said. “We gave it to you.”Luca looked at the second folder.“How long have you been waiting to put that on my table?”Matteo did not pretend to misunderstand.“Longer than this week.”The captains remained seated. None looked surprised.I understood then that they had not come only for Celina.But she was brought in first.She wore the black dress she had requested for my funeral. My mother had refused to have her there. Her wedding ring turned between her fingers as she searched the table for an ally.“I never meant for this to happen.”The security chief played the recording.This t
A Ring for a Dead Bride A Mafia Don Driven Mad by Regret Chapter 13
My mother asked the guests not to bring white roses.By the morning of the funeral, the room was full of other flowers: yellow tulips, purple irises, a crooked bunch of daisies tied with kitchen string.The daisies came from the boy in the photograph Luca had found. His grandmother held his hand while he stood beside my coffin.“Is the picture still okay?” he whispered.His grandmother nodded through her tears.All morning, people brought my mother pieces of me she hadn’t known about.A colleague described the time I had stayed late to teach a new assistant how to clean her brushes properly. A neighbor remembered a damaged photograph I had refused to throw away.None of them called me the future Mrs. Vitti.Luca stood near the back. He listened to every story.Adrian had asked to speak. My mother agreed on the condition that he show her what he planned to say.He had crossed out most of the first draft.When he stood up, he held a single sheet of paper.“My sister was patient,” he bega
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