Chapter 11

Vito knelt in the corridor and told my parents and the old Don everything while they sat in the chairs.My mother was angry and frantic at once. “Then why are you only saying this now?”Vito lowered his head and repeated, “Teresa, will you let me marry Antonia?”My mother looked at him for a long time.The old Don spoke up. “You’ve already hurt Antonia. If you marry her, you can never love anyone else.”My mother shook her head. “What is there to make up for now?“Antonia is gone. Let her leave quietly. Stop disturbing her rest.“If you had gone to her in time when she called you for help, maybe she...”I knew that from the moment the bullet struck, there was no chance I would survive.If he had arrived sooner, he would only have taken me home sooner. There was nothing he could have done about my death.Saying it out loud would only make him feel guiltier, would only make him blame himself harder for failing to protect me.But I knew Vito would pull himself together soon enough. He was

Chapter 12

It was deep in the night before my mother and the others left. Vito went back to being swift and decisive, and set about arranging my funeral.In private, though, he was a different man. He kept asking everyone the same questions: How do you talk to a soul?Do souls come home?Do souls carry their wounds?Nobody could give him an answer. In the end he decided against having the doctors close my wound.Before I was buried, he finally made his move against the Colombo Family. He stripped them of their power, supplanted them completely, and sent a hitman to kill Vivian in revenge for me.On the day of the burial, Vito put the ring on my finger. My family and friends all came to see me off one last time.With them as witnesses, he held a brief wedding ceremony with me, and announced publicly that he would never take a wife.After the burial, Vito waited quietly until everyone had gone, and then he sat down in front of my grave.It was raining and he had no umbrella. He looked at my photogr

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