CHAPTER 129

NICK

I sat there and watched my mother leave after dropping such a bomb on me. I didn’t know if I should take what she said seriously or as just rumblings of an old and frustrated woman still grieving the loss of her husband. As a son, I should be listening to my mother and trying to make her life easy.

But my mother was like no other, she was no ordinary woman and even the way she spoke one could tell that she wasn’t the housewife everyone knew her to be. Mother had mafia blood running through her veins and even when I want to ignore some of the things she says, it’s hard to because of her background.

I might ignore them only to regret it later when she acts on them. “Tell me what is on your mind?” Ethan brought me back from my thoughts. I looked at my friend and he had this look I couldn’t decipher on his face.

“I don’t know what to make of the threat my mother just…” I shook my head no longer able to continue with what I was saying. I wished I remained ignorant to everything that s