The Mafia King's Regret
With my free hand, I pointed towards the door.
That door still opened to our breathtaking backyard, where our wedding party still awaited us, silhouettes in the afternoon sun against the ragged backdrop of cruel, unforgiving mountains.
“Go.” My words didn’t shake, even as my knees did, as that pointed finger trembled in the air. “Go now. Take your fucking pet, and never come back.”
He had no parting words for me.
He strode towards that door without a backwards glance for me, the woman he’d wooed, married, impregnated, and just as easily, as swiftly, abandoned. His gorgeous new plaything clung to his arm like maybe she wasn’t capable of walking under her own volition.