I Carried My Feverish Eight-Month-Old Baby Into New York’s Most Feared Crime Boss’s Mansion
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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.
She stood beside me.
The silver locket rested beneath her collar.
“I know what it represents.”
I looked at her.
“What?”
“People who survived.”
I smiled.
She continued:
“I know the family did terrible things.”
“Yes.”
“But they changed.”
“Yes.”
“And I get to choose what happens next.”
I hugged her.
“That is all your grandmother wanted.”
She smiled.
Then Victor joined us.
The Moretti legacy had become something else.
May you like
Not fear.
Responsibility.
