Romance

The Family

By Ari Weaver

At three in the morning on the jetty at Mergellina, you watched Rino Esposito push a man into the sea. Two days later his father fed you ragù and offered you a job, and made it plain that saying no meant leaving Naples that night. Now you carry the family's cash across the city every evening, a policewoman wants you to talk, and Rino drives you home without saying a word.

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