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Chapter 127

Penulis: Sammy
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Lena.

The gate creaks when it opens. I’ve asked a dozen times for someone to fix it, but today, the familiar sound feels like something ancient and final. Like a door closing behind me.

I should’ve known the second Luca told me he found her.

Not in words. Not directly. Just that look in his eyes again the one I thought had died the moment Lena vanished.

But it was back.

And now we’re here. Driving up the long gravel road to the house we grew up in. Home. If you could call it that anymore.

I glance sideways at him. He hasn’t said much. Just focused on the road, hands firm on the wheel, brow tight. But I can feel it vibrating off him that silent ache, the tension that comes from loving someone you’re not sure you should trust.

“She’s not coming with us?” I ask, breaking the silence.

He doesn’t look at me. “She needed time. She’ll come later.”

I nod, though the answer doesn’t satisfy me.

I turn back to the window, watching the tall hedges blur past. When we were kids, I used to preten
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  • MARRIED TO THE MAFIA   Chapter 127

    Lena. The gate creaks when it opens. I’ve asked a dozen times for someone to fix it, but today, the familiar sound feels like something ancient and final. Like a door closing behind me.I should’ve known the second Luca told me he found her.Not in words. Not directly. Just that look in his eyes again the one I thought had died the moment Lena vanished.But it was back.And now we’re here. Driving up the long gravel road to the house we grew up in. Home. If you could call it that anymore.I glance sideways at him. He hasn’t said much. Just focused on the road, hands firm on the wheel, brow tight. But I can feel it vibrating off him that silent ache, the tension that comes from loving someone you’re not sure you should trust.“She’s not coming with us?” I ask, breaking the silence.He doesn’t look at me. “She needed time. She’ll come later.”I nod, though the answer doesn’t satisfy me.I turn back to the window, watching the tall hedges blur past. When we were kids, I used to preten

  • MARRIED TO THE MAFIA   Chapter 126

    LenaI fell asleep around five in the morning, and once the sleep kicked in, it was like I forgot about all my problems and actually slept. I should’ve known he’d come in the morning.Luca was always the kind of man who faced things head on, when the world was still quiet, when no one was watching.The knock is soft but steady. Not like the note at the window. Not like fear. It's familiar in a way that sends a shiver down my spine.I open the door before I can change my mind.And there he is.Luca.His presence fills the frame like the room’s too small for him. A dark coat over a grey sweater. The same stormy eyes I used to try not to stare at for too long. The same intensity that made people shut up mid sentence when he walked into a room.Except now, that intensity is focused solely on me.“Hi,” he says quietly.It’s such a normal word. Ridiculously normal. Like we hadn’t torn each other’s lives apart. Like I hadn’t vanished in the middle of the night and left no trace but a door s

  • MARRIED TO THE MAFIA   Chapter 125

    Lena. I haven’t slept.Not really.I tossed and turned through the night, my body exhausted but my mind locked in a loop I couldn’t escape.All k could think about was Luca, he was living in my mind rent free. He knows. Luca knows where I am. He was in my front yard a few hours ago. His handwriting sits folded in the pocket of my robe, like a stone pressing against my ribs. I keep pulling it out, reading the same line over and over.“You don’t have to be afraid. I just needed to know you’re safe. ”Safe.It’s a simple word. One I haven’t let myself believe in for a long time.But now it tastes like a lie on my tongue.Because if he’s here if he found me, how long before others do? How long before the people I was running from realize I’m still alive, still breathing, still vulnerable? How long before Vanessa came for me, she hated me and still blamed me for the failure of her relationship with Luca, she wanted me to burn. Lila hated me too, she was the reason I had ran away. Ever

  • MARRIED TO THE MAFIA   Chapter 124

    Lena. I thought I could disappear.I thought if I changed my name, cut my hair, and found a quiet town where nobody asked questions, the past wouldn’t follow me here.I thought wrong.It started two days ago.Subtle at first barely a whisper in my mind. A hesitation at the door. A flicker of movement I couldn’t place. The kind of thing you blame on nerves or lack of sleep. And God knows I haven’t slept much lately. But today… today something shifted.I feel it like a weight in the air.Like the silence is too still.Too watched.The bookstore closes early on Thursdays, and I walk the ten minute trail home just as the sun dips behind the pines. Mossbridge is small, but beautiful in that worn, lived-in way. Ivy curls over old stone walls. Kids chalk pictures on the pavement. People wave just to be kind.It’s the kind of town where no one locks their doors and I made damn sure mine has five bolts.I clutch my worn canvas bag tight to my side, fingers brushing the old flash drive tucked

  • MARRIED TO THE MAFIA   Chapter 123

    LucaIt’s been thirty two days since Lena disappeared.I counted each passing day, every time my phone rang hoping it was her or the private investigator telling me he had found her. But every time I was disappointed. Not because I like the number. Not because I’m keeping some pathetic shrine of memory. But because every day without her has felt like a hollow punch to the gut. Like I’m living on borrowed time like some piece of me walked out the door with her, and I can’t get it back.I’ve had people leave before.But no one ever vanished the way Lena did.She didn’t just walk away. She erased herself. Changed her phone number. Wiped every trace. Closed the apartment. Left no forwarding address, no goodbye, no note. Not even a damn voicemail.She burned the bridge and salted the earth.And still still I haven’t stopped looking.My sister Lila hates me for it. Thinks I’ve lost my mind. “She lied to us, Luca. She stole from us. She made you weak.”But she didn’t make me weak. She made

  • MARRIED TO THE MAFIA   Chapter 122

    Lena. It’s supposed to be a normal day.Routine is everything now. The rhythm of waking up before sunrise, making the same coffee with the same amount of sugar, unlocking the bookstore, opening the front windows, sorting deliveries, and waiting for the quiet to wrap itself around me like a blanket. This town, this life it’s all about invisibility.And most days, it works.Most days, no one sees me.But today is different.I feel it the second the bell over the bookstore door chimes, soft and sharp.I look up from the counter, half expecting Abby, the barista from next door, or the little girl who comes in every Wednesday asking if the new fairytale books have arrived.Instead, I see him.Mason. I freeze.For a second, I wonder if I’ve made him up like a ghost, conjured by guilt and memory. But no. He’s very real. Standing just inside the door, dressed in worn jeans and a gray wool coat, his brown hair damp from the sea spray.Same hazel eyes. Same nervous energy in the way he rubs t

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