The Unbearable Truth

Vivienne’s POV

When you hear the word mafia, your mind immediately jumps to the stories, the novels that dramatize it, the movies that glamorize it. You know how it is painted; the dark suits, the ominous meetings, the shadowy power that threads itself through every corner of life. That was how I had always understood it, from a distance, as something belonging only to pages and screens.

But it wa