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The Corleone Wife Who Died and Disappeared Chapter 8
A few months later, Professor Ross told me about a brilliant young student he’d been mentoring. The student had practically shouted with excitement when he’d heard my name, and the professor was convinced we knew each other.I agreed to meet him, and was shocked to find Vincent, my childhood best friend from New York, sitting at the café table.We’d run the streets of Little Italy together as kids, until his family moved to Sicily when we were teenagers. I hadn’t seen him since.“Seraphina. Long time no see.” He smiled, and I was instantly thrown back to the sunny, carefree boy I’d known growing up.We walked along the lake for hours, catching up on the decades we’d missed. I was surprised to learn he’d never married.I’d thought it would be awkward, that we’d have nothing to say to each other, but we talked like no time had passed at all. We loved all the same things: winemaking, long walks, classical Sicilian concerts. We fell into an easy, comfortable friendship, and spent more and
The Corleone Wife Who Died and Disappeared Chapter 7
After I left New York, I disappeared completely.Under Professor Ross’s clearance, I entered a sealed research program, cut off from the outside world. No records, no contact, no trace left behind.By the time anyone tried to find me, there was nothing left to follow.He stared at me, his eyes filled with pain and utter confusion.“Zane, we’re divorced. Why are you here?”He stared at me, his eyes filled with pain and utter confusion.“Zane, we’re divorced. Why are you here?”At the word “divorced”, his face went completely blank. “When did we get divorced?”I let out a bitter laugh, walked to the back office, and returned with the original divorce settlement papers. I set them down on the counter in front of him.He stared at his signature on the page. He couldn’t believe it was real.I said, “You signed it the night Susan called you, scared of the dark. You didn’t even look at it.”He couldn’t remember. How could he? He’d taken calls from her every single day, signed dozens of paper
The Corleone Wife Who Died and Disappeared Chapter 6
For years, I buried myself in data and experiments at the facility.As time passed, the pain Zane had caused me faded, until I felt nothing at all when I thought of him.The work was hard, but it was fulfilling. For the first time since my parents died, I felt like myself again. The brilliant, unapologetic woman I’d been before Zane’s love had shrunk me down to fit into his life.After several years, Professor Ross and I led our team to a groundbreaking scientific breakthrough. The project was officially declassified, and I was free to leave.I moved to Sicily, into my family’s ancestral home, and took over the hundred-year-old family winery. I spent my days making wine, walking the vineyards, and for the first time in my life, I was truly at peace.One quiet afternoon, I checked my personal email, and found a series of messages from the steward, sent over the years I’d been offline.The first attachment was the security footage from the restaurant, the night of our anniversary. It s
The Corleone Wife Who Died and Disappeared Chapter 5
For a beat, there was silence.Then his voice exploded.“Did she pay you to say that?” he roared. “You think I don’t know her tricks? Put her on the phone!”No answer.His grip tightened around the phone, veins standing out along his wrist.One hour later, in our New York villa, Zane had stormed into the living room to find the steward holding an urn with my name on it.He’d torn the villa apart from top to bottom, searching for me, only to be met with that urn every time he turned around. He’d grabbed the steward by the throat, screaming, “You’re lying! All of you are lying! She’s not dead! She’s faking it! That doctor said her heart was fine!”The steward had only looked at him, and said, “Don, I’m sorry for your loss.”No matter how much Zane screamed, no matter how many times he hit him, the steward only repeated those same words.He’d raged about the steward having my body cremated without his permission, and the steward had only replied, “The lady died of a sudden heart attack,
The Corleone Wife Who Died and Disappeared Chapter 4
We arrived at the restaurant at six o’clock that evening. We’d barely sat down when Zane’s phone rang. He answered it, then turned to me with an apologetic look.“I’m so sorry, Seraphina. Something urgent came up. I have to go handle it, but I’ll be right back, I promise.”He left.I waited until nine o’clock, until the food on the table had gone cold, until my stomach ached with hunger. He never came back.I was just standing up to leave when a familiar figure slid into the seat across from me.Susan.She looked me up and down, a cruel smirk on her face. “Well, Seraphina. At the end of the day, Zane still chose me. He left you alone on your wedding anniversary to come running to me. Have you ever stopped to think that maybe you’re the problem?”When I said nothing, she leaned forward, her voice sharp with triumph. “Let’s make a bet. Which one of us is gonna be the Donna of the Corleone family? It’s almost sad, really. All your hard work’s just gonna be my legacy. You should just fol
The Corleone Wife Who Died and Disappeared Chapter 3
“Have you guys seen how much the Don’s been hanging around Susan lately?”“Shut your mouth, the Donna’s right there!”One of the men elbowed the other, who turned to me with an awkward smile.“Sorry, Donna. Just messing around, don’t pay us no mind.”I stared at the table full of mango desserts.Susan’s favorite, through and through. And I was deathly allergic to mangoes.Once, Zane had loved me just as fiercely.He’d camped out at the docks for weeks on end, just to have an excuse to eat lunch with me when I was too busy to leave the office.When I’d pushed through work in the middle of a heart episode, he’d crushed my pills into a sugar-free cake, fed it to me with a grin, and laughed at the face I made when I tasted the bitter medicine underneath.Back then, the wind off the water had tasted sweet, just because he was there.Now, that sweetness belonged to someone else.I pushed the thought away, burying myself in the winery project paperwork.I’d pulled all-nighters for weeks to ge
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