INICIAR SESIÓN“Did you find out why the Rinaldi family is so interested in your girlfriend?” Raffa asked.I had a pretty good idea about why they wanted her so badly to be their daughter-in-law, but it didn’t make sense because they weren’t even a mafia family that needed connections.There was something else going on, and for the love of me, I couldn’t figure out what it was. All I could do was keep Chiara by my side and make sure they didn’t force her into a marriage she didn’t want.They sought to gain something from the marriage, and neither Chiara nor her father knew what it was, but Mimi did, and I doubted that she would ever tell me. She was a conniving little bitch, and I knew she had something up her sleeve.“No. I just know she wants Chiara because of her Greek Mafia connections, but I can’t figure out why she wants a connection to the mafia when she has all the funding she needs. There’s something else here that we don’t know about, and we need to find it out as soon as possible.”“Do yo
“Are you sure?” I asked.“No. It’s a hunch.”My whole world as I knew it shattered before my eyes because I couldn’t believe a word I was hearing. My father was sleeping with the woman who tried to get a man to violate me.He was sleeping with the current leader of the Italian mafia, which meant he knew everything she did. It meant he was complicit in all her crimes and was possibly helping her cover it up.I didn’t know how else I could defend him.It was either that or Vittoria was a very good liar, and she had fooled my father into believing that she was a good person when she wasn’t. But I found it hard to believe that my father could be fooled so easily.He knew what real criminals looked like, and he knew how they acted and behaved. There was no way that he had no idea what kind of woman she was.“Why are you so pale?” Alessandro asked me. For a moment, I believed that he also knew the kind of woman my father was sleeping with. How couldn’t he know that Vittoria was the current
“Can you stop being dramatic? Why do you keep asking about her so much? Do you know something?” He asked, and I had to laugh at the audacity that he had to shift the blame onto me when we were speaking about what he knew and his involvement in the whole matter.It was very disgusting behavior on his part. One that he had learned from Matteo.“No. You're not going to shift the blame to me and try to make me seem like I’m the bad one in the situation. She is my mother. If I don’t ask about her, who else is going to? You’re hiding something, and I’m going right now to the police station to find out what’s going on.”Of course, I was bluffing, but he wouldn’t know that because he thought he was keeping me in the dark and that I was a naïve girl. I wasn’t the girl he knew me to be. I had changed for the better, and I would be damned if I allowed him to hide shit from me.He had defended me, but he was also acting like I was some little girl who needed protection from every other aspect of
Papa was lying on a hospital bed with many tubes attached to his body. He had never looked more flawed in his entire life, according to me.He was suddenly helpless, and not the bully I knew for years. I couldn’t help but wonder how my mother would feel about seeing him in such a state.The last time he was jumped outside of his building by the men Emilio had sent, she was so worried about him that she actually left the house without straightening her hair and wearing any makeup.It was the first time I had ever seen her in a disheveled state. It was also when I also learned how much she really loved him because she was willing to sacrifice her dignity and how the world viewed her for him.I wondered if she still held the same empathy she did back then. A part of me doubted that she did because of how ill she had spoken about him the last time I saw her. Knowing she was somewhere in Greece, living her best life put a smile on my face.I wanted to see her even if it was just one so tha
“Relax, you don't know that she’s the one who did this, and we can’t afford to offend her right now. You need to get your shit together and concentrate on how Papa will heal. He needs us right now, especially if he wants to come to terms with what has happened.” I said.“Are you defending her right now? Is it because you want her to protect you when you finally marry Tom? Let me tell you something. That woman is worse than Tom is. Where do you think he gets his nasty attitude from?”“Can you get your head out of your fucking ass? I’m not defending her. I just insulted her right this second. How could I care about how she sees me? I’m telling you this because we don’t know for a fact that she’s the one who did this, and instead of focusing on revenge, we should be focusing on how we’re going to make Dad feel better.”“But—”“He’s going to be paralyzed! Don’t you understand that? He has walked for all his life, and now suddenly he’s losing his legs. We need to figure out how we’re going
Alessandro looked like he was going to lose his mind after Mimi said that. She was basically implying that she had tried to kill my father before and failed. I couldn’t put it past her to do something like that again.Except, I knew who had actually tried to kill Papa, and it wasn’t her.It was really disgusting for her to say something like that. He was about to lunge for her, but the doctor interrupted.“Alessandro Moretti?” he called.Alessandro closed his eyes and took deep breaths, and then he turned to the doctor. It seemed like he was contemplating whether or not to make Mimi pay right then and there or to listen to the doctor.I grabbed his arm to ground him into reality. This is what Mimi did. She liked provoking people and insulting them, and then losing her mind when they retaliated against her.Then she would use the retaliation as a way to justify all the bad things she did. I knew her best since she was my mother-in-law, and she was not a good person.“Let’s just hear wh







