At a private Mafia-family wedding, three-year-old Elisa accidentally bumped a pedestal and shattered an antique porcelain vase.
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Chapter 15
Lucinda and I never returned to what we were.
Important.
Before the wedding, she was practically a sister.
Afterward, something remained broken.
Not hatred.
Trust has architecture.
Once altered, rebuilding does not recreate the original house.
We became cordial.
Then warmer.
She saw Elisa at family gatherings.
Never alone for years.
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She accepted it.
That acceptance rebuilt more than any apology.
