The Chosen Bride
My brother approached me to tell me something that would consume my thoughts entirely.
"You should ask Gemma if the tradition of bloody sheets also applies," Hiro told me the night before. "I didn't think of it, but I have no idea if they, as an Italian mafia, adhere to that kind of tradition."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
The words "blood" and "sheets" didn't sound good at all; they made me doubt, tremble, and reconsider everything.
"In some very traditional mafias, after the wedding celebration, people encourage the newlyweds to go to the bridal suite, and then, in the morning, they display the sheets as proof that the man could fulfill and that the woman was pure," he explained.