“What did you say,” she responded as she turned to look at me with raised eyebrows. I knew she was pretending not to know what was going on, and somehow it pissed me off when she feign ignorance.

“You know what I am talking about,” I spitted out but my voice came out harsher than I expected. The maids around me gasped in horror as they glanced between us, scared of why I would talk like that. I knew Maria was a woman who commanded respect wherever she went, she was the mother to the mafia boss, one of the most powerful men the world has ever seen and I...