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Chapter 120
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After Death, I Chose The Mafia Don Chapter 120
The wall took another round and a piece of it the size of a fist spun off into the pan. Blair put her face against the stone and felt it through her cheekbone.Alessandro was on his knees beside her, reloading with quick, flat hands. He didn't look up. "The rifle's in the pump house, on the roof. One man. Marco's on the road with two others, and they can't get across the open ground. I'm going to the pans." He snapped the magazine home. "There's a line of salt heaps along the north side. I can use them to get close.""I'm coming.""You're staying here." He took her chin in his hand, not gently. "You've got Tano's pistol. It's on his belt. Take it."She looked at the man on the gravel. His eyes were half open. She put her bloody hand on his hip and found the holster, and the gun came out heavier than she remembered. It was warm. She checked the chamber the way she'd been shown, and thumbed off the safety."If anyone comes over that wall who isn't me or Marco," Alessandro said, "you sho
After Death, I Chose The Mafia Don Chapter 119
The salt works at Nubia looked like a field of broken mirrors in the grey light. Rows of shallow pans ran away on both sides of the path, each one holding a skin of water the color of pewter, and between them the heaps of harvested salt stood in low white ridges. The sea was on the left, behind a stone wall about as high as Blair's chest. At the far end of the path, half a mile off, the windmill stood with its four sails stopped.It was twenty to six. Blair crouched behind the wall with Alessandro on one side of her and a man called Tano Pellegrino on the other. Tano was thirty-five, a former fisherman with a broken nose and a pair of binoculars on a strap round his neck, and he had been quietly eating an almond biscuit for the last ten minutes.Alessandro had not stayed at home. He had not discussed it. At half past three he had put on a dark jacket and checked a pistol and put the pistol in his belt at the back, and when Blair looked at him he'd said only, "I'm not asking." She hadn
After Death, I Chose The Mafia Don Chapter 118
Nicoletta read the half sheet standing at the study window with her back to the room. She read it once, and then she folded it very small and held it in her closed hand."Alone," she said. "That's how she wrote when she was nine. Short, like an order. When she wanted something badly, she made it sound like a favor to you.""You're not going alone," said Alessandro."I'm going where she asked. I'll walk down that path by myself." She turned round. "I'm not going to stand at the end of a salt works with a rifle at my back and a wire in my coat, so that my sister can see the shape of it from fifty yards.""Mamma.""She's sixteen in my head, Alessandro. She's still holding the ladder. If she sees a man in a van, she'll run, and she'll never write again." Nicoletta's voice didn't rise. "I'll go in the open. In a grey cardigan. If it's a trap, I'll have been a fool in a good cause.""And if it is a trap, I'll have lost my mother," Alessandro said. "On a Sunday, in a salt marsh, for a sister
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At four o'clock Sofia and her mother went in through a green gate halfway up a lane in Erice, and the gate closed behind them. Blair watched it from the stone wall at the lane's mouth, sixty yards away. It was a very ordinary gate."She'll be pouring the tea by now," Alessandro said. He sat beside her on the wall with a length of old rope across his knee, and a thermos at his feet, and an expression of great calm that she didn't believe for a moment. "Don't watch it. It doesn't open any faster.""I know.""Give me your hand."She gave it to him. He put the end of the rope in it. "Make a loop, a small one, near the end. Now the long end comes up through it, the way a rabbit comes out of a hole. Round the back of the tree, and down the hole again.""This is the mainsheet?""It's a bowline. The mainsheet is another thing, but you need this first." He folded his hands. "Try."It took her four attempts. The first knot slid apart, and the second turned itself inside out. On the third, a tig
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Fiorella got up first and put the kettle on, because it was something to do with her hands. She set out two cups. She took the lid off the sugar bowl and put it back. Then she sat down again, folded her hands, and said, "Start at the beginning, and don't leave anything out because you think it'll hurt me."Blair told her.She had done it once before, on a cliff road in front of a man who had the right to walk away, and she'd thought that was the hard one. It wasn't. That time she had been afraid of being disbelieved. This time she was afraid of being believed. She watched her mother's face the whole way through, and it never closed.She said that she had been twenty-five. She said she had been a nurse, and that she'd married a boy named Andrew Esposito at twenty, and that it had gone wrong in the first month and stayed wrong for five years. She said he had been the kind of husband who was always very gentle in front of other people. She said that her mother had been allowed to see her
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Alessandro stopped the car at the corner of her parents' street and turned off the engine. He didn't say anything for a while. Then he reached into the door pocket and took out a battered paperback with a cracked spine and a sailor's knot on the cover."What's that?""Rigging for small boats. I've been reading it for three days." He held it up with a perfectly straight face. "The Arancia has a mainsheet I've never understood. I thought I should."Blair looked at him. "You're reading a boat manual to keep from going in there.""I'm reading it so that I'm not in there. A man with my name arriving in a street full of carabinieri isn't going to help your father's blood pressure." He opened it at a marked page. "I'll be here. If you need me, send Marco. If you don't, I'll have learned something about cleats."She laughed, and it loosened something in her chest. She leaned across the gearbox and kissed him, once, hard, on the corner of the mouth. "Have you eaten?""There's a roll in the glo
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