Chapter 49 The Packed Bag
Matteo's POV
My father sent for me at nine on Tuesday morning.
Aldo was standing at the window with his hands folded, and that told me what the conversation was before anybody opened a mouth. My father doesn't want witnesses for ordinary things.
The folder was on the table beside him with his...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Daughter They Picked To Sacrifice
2. Chapter 2 The Wedding Without A Groom
3. Chapter 3 The Man I Couldn't Understand
4. Chapter 4 The Long Way
5. Chapter 5 The Family Table
6. Chapter 6 My Uncle Chose My Wife
7. Chapter 7 The Photograph
8. Chapter 8 Which Church
9. Chapter 9 The Numbers
10. Chapter 10 Sunday Lunch
11. Chapter 11 Fine, Three Times
12. Chapter 12 Cedar 
13. Chapter 13 Her Wing First
14. Chapter 14 The Kind Brother
15. Chapter 15 No Change
16. Chapter 16 Why Tell Me
17. Chapter 17 Green
18. Chapter 18 The Chair
19. Chapter 19 Credit
20. Chapter 20 Sixty-Five
21. Chapter 21 Three A.M.
22. Chapter 22 The Seat
23. Chapter 23 Family
24. Chapter 24 House Guest
25. Chapter 25 The Window
26. Chapter 26 Bookkeepers
27. Chapter 27 The Word He Used
28. Chapter 28 The Honest One
29. Chapter 29 The North Window
30. Chapter 30 Who Chose Me
31. Chapter 31 My Mother Knew Her First
32. Chapter 32 Wages
33. Chapter 33 The Lunch
34. Chapter 34 Eleven Days
35. Chapter 35 My Turn
36. Chapter 36 What He Doesn't Say
37. Chapter 37 Rossi's
38. Chapter 38 Four in the Morning
39. Chapter 39 Somewhere to Go
40. Chapter 40 Gone by Tuesday
41. Chapter 41 The Examination
42. Chapter 42 A Quarter to One
43. Chapter 43 Underneath
44. Chapter 44 What We Do Now
45. Chapter 45 L and A
46. Chapter 46 In Writing
47. Chapter 47 The Funeral
48. Chapter 48 The Wrong Feet
49. Chapter 49 The Packed Bag
50. Chapter 50 The Invoice
51. Chapter 51 Through My Father
52. Chapter 52 Montreal
53. Chapter 53 Paid in Full
54. Chapter 54 Six Years of Wages
55. Chapter 55 The Key
56. Chapter 56 A Priest
57. Chapter 57 My Sister's Hands
58. Chapter 58 First Night
59. Chapter 59 Hydrotherapy
60. Chapter 60 Running Out of Room
61. Chapter 61 Every Dollar
62. Chapter 62 Albany
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