The Mafia Don's Regret: She Is Gone Forever

ten years like a sacred offering, ready t

I heard Josiah tell his Underboss that

an't become Don while babysitting a mute ghost. Le

ncess for her father's trade ro

ppen in that office. It happene

sliding beneath us into a ravi

at the bottom. Lexi was

uthed "I'm sorry,"

ure his alliance. He left me to

an who swore a blood oath to protect me

ence would finally

as w

grave and vanished fro

the city, not as his broken war

ery, looking shattered and beggi

dead in the e

ed you died in th

pte

ce

ad spoken in a decade on my

to be gifted to the ma

, I heard him tell the Underboss that I

was ajar, open just

the truth to slip thro

ace beaming with professional pride because my vocal

to go surpr

Vitiello heir

iced the wo

sia

his

lence that had imprisoned me since the car bomb t

lo estate, clutching the hem of my d

s were

e sliver of light sl

h was

esk, stripping down a Glock 19 with the prac

-in-command, was

nking against the decanter. "He wants the territory expans

mil

he dist

had pulled from th

e swore a blood

to push th

ark. It's a burden," Josia

froze on

the gentle rumble I heard

as c

oice of a Ca

the barrel of the gun. "I can't become a Made Man while I'm babysitting a ghost. Th

the hallw

ped, but not

p. "Send her to a facility in Switzerland. Marr

ait

r Josiah to

im to say that

bled the slide

ck-c

a headache, but she brings power. Grac

lau

short,

the wreckage," he said, inspecting the s

pped

no sound on th

Ghost, a

hed my

ill there, sitting heavy

llowe

ted li

empty corridor, passing beneath the portra

dn't

ed for my recovery

Dr. Evans

g to speak to

to speak to h

he complained

in that

alked away was some