Chapter 12 - The Mafia Boss Everyone Feared Became the Father Who Learned to Pack His Daughter’s LunchLife after the empire was strange.
I moved to a quiet house outside the city.
Lily started school.
Elena recovered slowly.
I learned ordinary things.
Lunch boxes.
Parent-teacher meetings.
Birthday parties.
Homework.
Ponytail holders.
I was terrible at most of them.
Lily didn't care.
She loved me anyway.
One afternoon, she came home crying.
A boy had told her her father was dangerous.
I knelt.
“Are you afraid of me?”
She shook her head.
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because you saved Mommy.”
I smiled.
“Actually, you saved me.”
She looked confused.
“I did?”
“Yes.”
I told her about the sidewalk.
About the yellow dress.
About the pharmacy bag.
She smiled.
“I told you to wake up.”
“I know.”
“Did it work?”
I laughed.
“Best medicine I ever had.”
That night, Elena watched us from the kitchen.
She smiled.
But she still had one secret.
She had never told me the full reason she had left seven years ago.
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And when I finally asked, she said,
“Because I was afraid I would love you again.”
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