Half a Lifetime Later—My Mafia Princess is Finally Mine
I wiped my face with the back of my hand, my breath still coming in those shaky, pathetic hitches that happen when you’ve got no tears left.
I was about to tell Mauro to just take me back, to just let me go home and give up when I saw it.
It was tiny. A little golden speck, miles away, sitting on the edge of a dark silhouette that had to be one of the small islands scattered along the coast. It wasn't the bright, blinking light of a buoy or the beam of a lighthouse. It was soft, flickering. Like a campfire or a single lamp in a window.