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I Don't Want the Ring or You
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Synopsis
Contemporary
First-Person POV
Winning Back the Wife
Independent
Mafia
Decisive
Affair
Betrayal
Regret
For our fifth anniversary, I planned to bid on a pink diamond ring. A young woman outbid me. I followed her outside to ask if she would consider selling it to me. She stood at the curb, showing the ring on her hand to the friend who had come with her. "I'm already tired of this one. "So my boyfriend told me to pick out something I liked for our first anniversary." I stopped. She would never part with an anniversary gift. Reese was busy handling the smuggling trade along the coast and could not come with me. He had only said he would not be home for dinner and told me to buy myself something nice to celebrate. When I heard her say her boyfriend had a candlelit dinner waiting for her, I smiled and envied their young love. My car pulled up. As I was about to get in, she turned around. I saw the ring on her hand, the one she was already tired of. My breath caught. Cold shot from the soles of my feet to the base of my skull. It was the ring Reese had given me last year, then discarded because it did not fit.
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I Don't Want the Ring or You Chapter 9
His shoulders finally sagged.The sea wind in Sicily turned up his collar and revealed the dark blue vest I had chosen for him five years earlier.I found it bitterly ironic. He had rarely worn anything I chose for him.He stood there for a long time before pulling a newly printed settlement from a document folder.It awarded most of the assets to me.The settlement would cost him dearly."Then at least take this."He pushed the papers through the iron bars. The rough, rusted iron scraped his fingertip, leaving a red line across it.It looked much like the blood at the corner of my mouth when I left the ballroom."Don't leave with nothing. You paid for those assets with your blood. I didn't give them to you."I didn't take the paper."Take the settlement back. I don't want the wreckage of the Moretti family, and I don't want you building me an estate. I have my own gallery here in Palermo. I painted the walls and planted the irises myself. Everything here is mine, entirely my own. Do y
I Don't Want the Ring or You Chapter 8
By my second month in Palermo, an informant in Chicago sent me a sealed envelope containing a photograph.It was a surveillance photograph taken three years earlier at Chicago's south docks.Emily had not yet dyed her short, dark brown hair blonde. She wore a work jacket.She stood beside a ship registered to the Calabria syndicate, handing a brown paper file to a man I recognized.Domenico.The second-in-command overseeing arms shipments out of Naples.I looked at it a long time.The informant had written only two lines:Ms. Camorra, no underboss placed her with Reese by chance.She bore Calabria's seal from her first day.That explained everything.Reese thought he'd been keeping a docile canary.In truth, the white estate had served as Calabria's listening post inside the Moretti family from the day its foundations went in.She took the plans Reese gave her and every coastal account he let slip, sending them south piece by piece.The pink diamond ring was camouflage. So was the firs
I Don't Want the Ring or You Chapter 7
At four the next morning, lawyers from Carlo Moretti's firm delivered the divorce settlement drafted on Rebecca's instructions to Reese.He had just left Emily's white estate. Champagne still stained his shirt collar.When the call came, he still thought Rebecca was throwing a tantrum.Holding the papers, Reese stared for ten solid minutes at the line that read "husband unfaithful during wife's pregnancy."The settlement was scrupulously fair. Rebecca was even willing to walk away with nothing.Everything he had given her, she didn't want.Reese admitted that he had gone a little too far for Emily this time.But what man did not stray a little during marriage? Besides, Reese had promised before a priest to stay with Rebecca for life, and he would not break that promise.That was why he refused to believe his affair justified a divorce.Reese made a call.He intended to tell Rebecca she had no right to end their marriage.Rebecca didn't answer.Emily came out of the estate after him and
I Don't Want the Ring or You Chapter 6
This time, I did not wait for an answer.I ended the call and snapped my SIM card in half.With it went every trace of Reese, left behind somewhere between Chicago and Sicily.Only then did I feel free of the relationship that had been suffocating me.I watched Chicago shrink to a dot outside the window, and something in me let go.I thought I would cry, that I would find it hard.Instead, it felt as though a long stretch of rain inside me had finally ended.Most of the people on the plane were going on holiday, and I listened to their quiet talk and slowly closed my eyes.I always used to worry when I flew with Reese.Watching the clouds with him had been romantic, but I always worried that a rival family would ambush us after we landed.He had once held me in his arms and promised we would someday live as an ordinary married couple, with one condition: no more bloody Mafia feuds.I used to look forward to that day, even knowing it would never come.It was afternoon when the plane tou
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