The Birth That Broke the Boss
Not even a coroner could tell the difference.
Back in Sicily, I locked myself in my room.
I didn't eat or drink, lost track of day and night, consumed by endless regret for the choices I had made.
Even in my dazed state, I could hear my unborn child calling for me, begging me to save him.
All those years ago, I had defied my father to marry Vito, content to be the woman behind the man, only to fail to save my own baby.
The snake venom was agonizing for a grown man. What chance did my child, still in my womb, ever have?