Married To The Mafia King, Pregnant With His Heir
Vittoria's
Bella married Antonio's careful business partner's son, a good, steady young man I believed would provide her genuine security, when she was twenty-three, and I confess I allowed myself, in the years that followed her wedding, to finally believe that Salvatore's old threat had genuinely faded into irrelevant history.
Antonio's health remained fragile in ways that never fully resolved after his terrible illness, though he lived considerably longer than the physician had once believed possible, long enough to see Bella settled into her own household, long enough to hold her only daughter, born nearly two years into her marriage.