He Married My Sister. I Stopped Waiting
“I’m your guardian, Viola. We can never be together.”
For six years, Nicholas Valenti had used those words to turn me down.
So when he announced that he was going to marry my sister, I asked him only one question.
“Didn’t you watch her grow up, too?”
He didn’t answer.
A week earlier, he had held me beside my father’s body and promised to take care of me, no matter what happened.
A week later, he chose my sister—and with her, my father’s signet ring and the position of Don.
I didn’t attend the wedding.
My flight to Paris was still on the runway when his messages flooded my phone.
“Viola, you can be angry with me. Yell at me, curse me. Just don’t shut me out!”
“Answer the phone. Let me hear yo