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“Oh,amore mio.” I held him tighter.
“You came back to me. I prayed but I didn’t think anyone heard me. I begged you to come back and you did.”
“I always come back to you, don’t I?”
“Yes, because you’re my Grazi.”
“And you are my Sasa.” I put my forehead on his and looked into those drowned green eyes. “I’m so sorry.”
“Don’t apologize,Tesoro. You did nothing wrong. You were brave and strong, my dear girl.”
“I left without my guards.”
“It doesn’t matter anymore. Accounts have been settled and you are safe now. No one will ever hurt you again. I won’t allow it.”
I knew what that meant. He wasn’t going to let me out of his sight, maybe forever. Fine by me. I didn’t feel like leaving his side either.
“Sasa, what accounts? What did you do?”
“Don’t think about that,Tesoro. There are more important things. You are more important.”
“I’m your wife.” I took his face in my hand and made him look at me. “We talked about this, Salvatore. No secrets. You don’t have to carry burdens alone and you don’t get to shut me out.”
He debated it in his head for a few moments before he exhaled, defeated in front of my argument.
“Silvio Bianchi is dead by your brother’s hand.” I nodded. I knew he’d find him and I knew he’d kill him. “There’s more, Grazi.”
“More?”
“Giovani Caputo is theDonof hisfamiglia. He took your father’s place.”
“Took his place?” Father loved his power. He would have never let it go. “My father is dead.”
“Yes.”
“You did it.”
“With my bare hands. Do you hate me for it?”
“Never. I couldn’t.” I loved Salvatore Fiori, all of him. I loved the man and I loved the monster behind him, and I made vows to stay by his side forever. In sickness and in health. In richness and poverty. In death. “I wish it would have been different. I wish he would have been a better man.”
“He wasn’t, but Giovani is a goodDon. He’s fair and respected and he’s doing a hell of a job cleaning the Caputo name. All of them should feel honored to call him Capo and give him their loyalty.” He stopped and smiled. “I know I’m proud to call him my brother-in-law.”
“Sasa… does this mean… did you reconcile?”
“We did.”
“Oh, my God!” I grabbed his shoulder trying to get up, but he pushed me right back into the chair’s cushions. “I can see my family?”
“Yes. They love you, your brothers. They tried to protect you the only way they knew how which was by staying away and not to provoke your father any further. He’s dead. The fucker is gone and he can’t hurt you anymore. My father is gone too. There’s no reason for Caputo and Fiori to fight. We can thrive together, run Palermo together. Like it was meant to be.”
Tears started stinging my eyes. Giovani had six brothers to back him up, but Salvatore was alone. Pietro and Yannis were by his side, but they didn’t have that bond that my brothers did. Now, I knew Giovani would stand with him no matter what and so would the rest of the Caputo brothers. We were one. We werefamigliaagain.
“You did it,Sasa. You unified Palermo again. Adrian would be proud of the extraordinary man you are.”
“I’m just a man, Grazi, but I have you. That’s my power. You are myextraordinary.”
I started crying, not because I was sad, but because I was overwhelmed with how much he loved me. I tried to run from him, I tried to stay away, I tried to deny it, but he loved me through all of it. He married me when that meant war. He loved me hard enough to bring me back to life when the doctors gave up on me.
