He Chose His Brother’s Widow, So I Took Our Daughter and Disappeared

After I was given in alliance to the Morettis, one of the oldest families in La Cosa Nostra, as the second wife, I was Vitale's bound wife in name only. Everyone in the famiglia knew the real love of his life was his widowed sister-in-law, Serafina, the woman his dead brother had left behind.

He called me the perfect consort, a graceful hostess who could stand at his side at any sit-down. At his gatherings, I would take shot after shot of grappa to shield him from any insult passed across the table.