MAFIA BRIDE
Then she lowered herself onto the blankets beside her husband, and Luca's arm came around her without waking, and drew her close against his chest.
Beyond the window, the city glowed in its long gold smear, a hundred thousand lights, all of them hers. Somewhere across the ocean, a man in a lit room was reading the transcript of a short and courteous telephone call, and beginning to understand what he had begun. She would see to him in the morning. She would see to everything in the morning, as she always did.
She shut her eyes.
She had been a pawn, a ghost, a widow, and a weapon. Now she was the Mafia Bride, and her legacy was only beginning.
Bab Populer