Mobbed Up Love

I will spend every day of the rest of my life protecting what’s mine. That includes her.

I wasn’t looking for love when I found it in my family’s club, but God works in mysterious ways and I will always be glad my cousins set that bachelor party up for Tony. For once, I am looking forward to the rest of my life with Autumn by my side everything is possible.

Epilogue

Autumn

Ten Years Later

There’s an old adage, that I’m pretty sure I made up, about the couple that kills together, stays together. I feel like that’s gotta be true. I even cross-stitched it on a sampler once. Though even without that to bind us, I’d never leave him. Ever. From the moment I saw him, I wanted him to be mine. Thank God he felt the same way. In ten years, we’ve never spent the night apart from each other. Neither of us would allow it. Loving this man has been the easiest thing in the world, even though he’s a bossy bastard. Let someone else call him that though, I will fuck their shit up. I really will. I am quite vicious when I have to be.

A life of crime wasn’t on my radar, but he awoke something savage and quite a bit murdery in me that I didn’t know I possessed. A match made in Heaven, though some would say Hell. Being married to the mob leaves you with two options: stay at home and pretend you don’t know what’s going on, or join your husband, help him. I chose the latter and never regretted it.

I have never been happier and neither has my mother. She married Lorenzo immediately after I was found. Tony and Angelina got married the following Saturday since they were still looking for me when they were supposed to be getting married. I still feel bad about that, but Angelina is one of my best friends. She forgave me instantly. Our children are not only cousins but friends as well. We all live behind the high walls surrounding the Diaz Estate. Safety in numbers. Over the years, we’ve pissed off a lot of motherfuckers, but it doesn’t touch us here. It can’t. The life we live is hard and rewarding and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

There is always a chance something could go wrong, but that makes it more exciting. Our children are safe and provided for if anything ever happens to us. It might be selfish of me, but I refuse to let my husband go out there on his own.

Each day with him and our little family makes me happy. Loving him is the easiest thing I have ever done.

After ten years and four children together, with many more to come, I am looking forward to seeing what the future has in store for us.