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Chapter 7

Author: Celice Wylder
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-03 19:45:21
Rafael

I lead Madeleine from the oppressive, disgusting interrogation room. Delilah, Bruce’s wife, gives me a look of death. “You are going to let her go?” she screeches, her voice threatening to burst my eardrums. “The bitch attacked one of your best employees.”

God, I hate that woman. Like Bruce, she thinks she’s special because I put her husband in a position of power. They will learn the hard way that none of them are above me, and all of them are worse than Madeleine.

I hand Madeleine over to Enzo, and she rushes to Betsy, who is sitting on a plastic chair, her little feet, dressed in white bobby socks and black shoes, swings back and forth while she devours a doughnut.

The kid is fucking adorable.

With a word, I turn on Delilah, sparing Lola only a passing glance. She’ll get her turn, but for now I have to wait - she’s pregnant and I have standards.

“Stay with Betsy,” I order Madeleine, sure that she won’t, can’t, make a run for it.

And even if she does, my men will catch up wi
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    RafaelThe lights are low. Madeleine is sleeping peacefully in her hospital bed. Hand tucked under her head, arms still over her belly as if she’s not aware that the baby who used to be there is on the outside now.Everything happened so fast. We barely made it to the hospital. Madeleine had the baby in the parking lot. A midwife made it outside just in time to catch him, rudely shoving me out of the way.I was relieved. I can handle blood and guts, but seeing my wife hold on to the car, unable to move, watching the blood drip down her legs, was more than I could handle.With two grunts, Madeleine pushed our son into the world. The nurse handed him to her, still attached to the cord. And like the warrior queen she is, my wife walked into the hospital, cradling our son close to her chest, growling at everyone who tried to take him from her.I lean over the bassinet and pick my tiny son up. All five pounds and 5 ounces of him. He wasn’t quite done cooking yet, but he’s healthy and stron

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 121

    MadeleineI could finally relax. The danger had passed. Rafael assured me again and again that all his enemies were neutralised - his words, not mine.Slowly, but surely, the past started to slip away, as it always does, and I started to relax. Started to believe that we were finally safe.The months pass in a beautiful haze of excitement and joy.Everything just clicked into place. The pregnancy is easy, Betsy has settled down, and some days I forget what she used to be like before. Before Rafael found me, and before he took us. The before, when I worked in a dingy casino, surrounded by cigarette smoke and despair. The before, when our future was so uncertain.It’s all in the distant past now. I found a life and a future with the most unlikely man imaginable. The kind of person I used to despise.Some mornings, when he joins us for breakfast, I’ll look at him, and can’t believe my own damn luck. We’ve settled into a kind of domestic bliss. Rafael is here when I leave in the morning

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 120

    RafaelElliot said the world would end with a whimper, not a bang. That is how my war with Sforza ended. Quietly. The guns fell silent.And like the eery quiet on the Western Front, when the last of the guns fired their shots, so my life settled into the same, uncomfortable silence.For a while, I followed the headlines like my life depended on it. Because it did. Mine and Madeleine’s did. They discovered the bodies on the dirt road, but the investigation was swift and superficial. The police declared that it was an altercation between the gangsters, and couldn't be arsed to look deeper.I think they were just glad to be rid of Rossi and his crew. As much as the honest police officers in this town hate me, they hated Rossi even more.Sforza’s death was declared natural. Sepsis due to food poisoning. I kept waiting, holding my breath, for the police to show up at my door, for the cartel to show up and hack my family to pieces. But Mitchell heeded my warning, and Harris took early reti

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 119

    MadeleineThe bright sunlight stabs at my eyes, and I have to blink a few times to adjust. The air is different here. Fresher somehow. More open.“Now what?” I ask.“We go home.”“It’s over?”“Yes.”I look over my shoulder into the diner, at Sforza who is still sitting in the booth, finishing his pie. “What about him? What if he survives and comes for us again?”“He won’t, Madeleine. There is no way he can survive.”“Can’t we at least take him to a hospital so he won’t… suffer.”A smile flickers across Rafael’s face. “Good. After what happened with Rossi, I was worried.”I turn my attention back to him and look up at his handsome face. I never get tired of watching him. “Why?”He shrugs. “That kind of thing… it changes a person. On a fundamental level. It makes me happy to see that you still have compassion.”We start to wander back to the house. We didn’t touch our food, and I didn’t take one sip of my tea. I’m thirsty and I’m hungry, but mostly I’m in a state of utter disbelief. It f

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 118

    MadeleineThe man in the corner suddenly looks sinister and grotesque. When we entered, I thought he looked like someone’s dad, maybe passing through on his way somewhere else. He didn’t appear to be a threat. He looked so… normal.What are we going to do? If he’s like Rafael, he didn’t come here alone. And Frankie is at home, all alone and with no idea what’s going on.My legs are wobbly, and my palms are extra sweaty. I regret leaving my gun at home, but Rafael always carries his - even when we’re just sitting in the living room talking, he has his gun with him.My husband slides in next to Sforza and takes the seat opposite him. I have no idea what Rafael has planned, but every nerve is on fire. I can barely breathe, let alone think.No one says a word while we wait for the waitress to place our menus in front of us. The food all looks like it originates from the sixties, and so do the menus with their faded pictures and sticky plastic coverings.“What would you like to drink?”I

  • Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story   Chapter 117

    RafaelI sit at the faded table in the quaint little kitchen and sip on a glass of wine as I listen to Betsy’s babbling.We are far away from the city, in a village so small that it doesn’t even show on the GPS. Nestled at the foot of the mountains, this place would be a fantastic tourist destination, but the villagers are mostly farmers, and they like their peace. Any attempts by developers to turn this place into the next big, must see internet hit, are quickly shut down by the locals.There isn’t much to do here. They are so far off the grid, that I’m surprised they have electricity. There’s one diner that’s open twenty-four-seven and even serves Christmas dinner, a co-op that sells everything from jeans to fertiliser, and a general store covers everything else.I love it here. It’s quiet. Calm. Peaceful. After a good three hours of catching up, Betsy starts to wind down and gives us a big yawn. “Her days are busy,” Ethel says with a smile. “We go hiking, and we look for rabbits in

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