Chapter Forty Nine

They ganged up on her, Beresford telling her in no uncertain terms that if she insisted on facing the Mafia Don, he would insist she take them as her bodyguards. It was Beresford who contacted them again so she could take them up on their offer, albeit almost a year after it was made.

Knocking back his whiskey Don Mario stood to leave, his Guards standing quickly behind him,

‘Quindi Alcina ti aspetto domani sera alla mia festa di anniversario, lanciamo i nostri dadi e vediamo dove atterra’ [So Alcina I will expect you tomorrow night at my anniversary party, let us throw our dice and see where it lands]

He kissed both her cheeks and left with his men and Alcina sank back into her chair, her hardest battle was won, the other Families would now follow her, and Mario would see to that. She frowned, he had just invited her to his huge Anniversary Ball, he had been married for twenty-five years which was something of a miracle for the Mafia. Marriages did not normally last so long as a riva