Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen

Already going through their due process was the many changes her becoming such a prominent Don had caused, they had to change the rules of accession, now if a Don only had daughters, the eldest daughter could take the possession if she so desired. Women were allowed to work now too, thanks to her giving many of her guards wives jobs in her offices. She had shown what a waste of talent it was to force them to stay home and look after children who soon outgrew their need for Mommy to do everything for them. Women played a more hands-on involved role within their ‘families’ now and the Leaders had discovered it saved them a fortune as it cost them a lot less to pay Mafia women than it did to outsource jobs to agencies. Very reluctantly the Italian mafia was following in the footsteps of other enlightened organisations who saw the value in treating its female population the same as its male.

Ricci knew his wife-to-be was a strong, fiercely independent woman with a healthy temper, she was