What?"
Her mother reached forward to grab her arm, "just until she gets married to that man. By the time she is lawfully married to someone else, someone that has mo ties to the mafia then I will be certain she us married."
Charis shut her eyes, trying to wrap her mind around the situation yet no matter how she looked at it it was just too strange! How could her mother? No, the situation sounded like a bad soap opera.
How did they, the most dysfunctionally religious people get involved with the mafia? The mafia?!
Since when was she required to know Jack about a Capo dei capo?!
"Will you do it?" Her mother asked again and Charis just hurt her head.
Shouldn't they go to the police in times like this? No, that wouldn't help. If the police in this city were already corrupt and bent over in the face of the power of a city that was considered heavily Christian, she should expect the rest from the 'more wicked world's to be the same?
