I Carried My Feverish Eight-Month-Old Baby Into New York’s Most Feared Crime Boss’s Mansion
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Chapter 11 - When Lily Turned Ten, She Asked Victor Why He Had Looked So Afraid the First Time He Saw Her LocketVictor sat beside her.
He thought carefully.
“Because I realized the past had come back.”
“What past?”
“My mistakes.”
She frowned.
“You made mistakes?”
“Yes.”
“Big ones?”
“Yes.”
“Did you fix them?”
He looked at me.
“I'm trying.”
Lily smiled.
“That's good.”
Victor laughed.
She asked:
“Were you scared of me?”
“No.”
“Then why?”
“Because I was scared I would fail another child.”
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She hugged him.
That was the first time I saw Victor cry.
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Chapter 12 - At Fifteen, Lily Found Her Grandmother’s Original Letter and Finally Learned What the Silver Locket Was Really Meant to UnlockThe locket wasn't a key to money.
Chapter 13 - Lily Met Alessandra’s Children and Realized That Her Family’s Greatest Inheritance Was Not Money but the Chance to Break the CycleThe family became larger.
Chapter 14 - On the Anniversary of the Night Armed Men Stormed the Mansion, Lily Put Her Mother’s Locket Around Her Neck and Promised Me She Would Never Let Anyone Use Her Family Name to Hurt Another ChildLily was eighteen.
Chapter 15 - Three Days After Giving Birth, I Thought the Man Refusing to Sign My Daughter’s Birth Certificate Was My Biggest Problem—Then the Most Feared Man in the City Saw Her Silver Locket, and I Discovered Our Family Had Been Hiding a War for Generations — THE ENDI remember the hospital.
