As Alessia lowers herself into a chair beside the wedding table, Veronica violently yanks the chair away.
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Chapter 22 - HELENA DIES
Helena died at eighty-one after complications of pneumonia.
Natural.
No poisoning.
No Mafia execution.
Veronica sat beside her for the final two days.
Alessia visited once.
Not because obligation.
Because she wanted.
Helena apologized directly.
“I called you a child because it made your authority easier to ignore.”
Alessia answered:
“I know.”
Then:
“I loved Dominic so much I turned his fear into Veronica’s cage.”
Veronica heard.
That mattered more to her than Alessia.
After Helena died, no one inherited a matriarch title.
May you like
Family women continued existing anyway.
Remarkable.
