Death Bliss
The light in the corridor is fading. The dust motes have stopped hanging in the gold and have become invisible against the darkening stone. Somewhere in the kitchen wing, Nonna Carmela is setting the table for dinner, the dinner that is served at eight o'clock, the dinner I may or may not attend tonight, and the household is moving through its evening rhythms, and none of them know that the heir to the Armenise syndicate is standing in the residential corridor reading the proof that his uncle ordered his brother's death.