Half a Lifetime Later—My Mafia Princess is Finally Mine
"I chose you. I chose you every single day, I chose you over my mother, over my sister loud and clear. So don't you dare talk to me about a knife in your back."
I stared at him, my pulse slowing down. I didn't move for a long time.
"You stayed away," I said, my voice low, stripped of the anger. It was just a cold statement of fact now.
"I stayed away," he repeated, "I let her suffer because you told me she didn't exist. I chose the father who killed my mother over the sister who had nobody. Every night I close my eyes, I see her face, and every morning I wake up and chose you again."