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

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Chapter 122

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

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Chapter 123

RafaelI sat in my office, elbows on my desk, head cradled in my hands, the sonogram picture in front of me. The tears came quickly and easily then.Madeleine was quiet the whole way home. She just stared out of the window, soft tears rolling down her face.I opened my mouth several times to say something to her, but all my words would have fallen short. I had no words. Nothing I could say to comfort her. But she did. Her words landed like a gut punch. “How many of our sons will die?”“None of them,” I answer through clenched teeth.Her belly was just starting to show, but she folded her arms protectively over the little bump and turned away from me - as if she feared I’d be the one who’d take him from her.Frankie walked in. Maybe he knocked, maybe he didn’t. I couldn’t remember.I glanced up, and all I could say was, “It’s a boy.”It wasn’t good news. I so wanted a son. I should have been jubilant, but all I could see was a police officer standing at the door, telling Madeleine tha

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng Innocence Interrupted - A Mafia Story: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 123

Chapter 121

Chapter 122

Chapter 123