Savage Kiss by Roberto Saviano

Author:Roberto Saviano
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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A few days later, Tucano showed up at the bank, accompanied by his parents. The manager came to welcome them and ushered them into the usual office. He’d already prepared all the documents, marked with Xs where Tucano’s parents were supposed to sign, their faces bewildered and ashen with disbelief, like someone who’s won the lottery but just can’t wrap their mind around it. As soon as they got home, the two of them emptied the master bedroom and gave it to Tucano so that he’d be more comfortable, with the hours he was keeping. They moved into his little bedroom, thus sanctioning on the basis of profit a switch in roles and status in the family hierarchy.

After them, it was the turn of Briato’s and Drone’s parents and Drago’s mother. Pesce Moscio brought the bank documents home, waving them in the air, with the words: “Mammà, they gave us a mortgage!” The reactions were all the same. Tears and hugs, heartfelt thanks and still more tears. At Stavodicendo’s home, a letter arrived by certified mail: his father was out of his mind with jubilation and he threw his arms around his incredulous wife, stunned by the gift that made the fact that their little boy was wanted by the law a little less of a bitter pill to swallow. “My son,” Lollipop’s mother went on repeating, now that they could buy the building that housed the gym and expand their business, “my son, my son, my son…”

Biscottino had returned home with his backpack overflowing with brochures from the bank, brochures that offered an array of investment possibilities. He had left the documents for the mortgage, on the other hand, in a folder on the table, open to the page with the amount being financed. Eighty thousand euros.

Greta had noticed the file immediately and she’d understood everything even before Eduardo started blathering confusedly about money, mortgages, and banks. She’d closed the folder and told Biscottino that she couldn’t stand being made a fool of.

“Ma, it’s all true, trust me. Now we can buy a real apartment!”

She’d slapped him in the face. “This is a real apartment!”

Since the day she felt she’d been pardoned, she’d become that much stricter with him. She’d given up on the program of protection, but the social worker never tired of telling her it was dangerous to go back, and said she’d already discussed the case with the police (though she didn’t admit it to her, she’d also mentioned their names), shouting that she couldn’t change her mind now.

Instead, she most certainly could, she told herself: first of all, that was the only path, and now it was no longer necessary. Emma, too, kept calling her, asking her to rethink it, or else she’d swing by the house to see her, but she was certain. She was so confident of her decision that one night, on her way to the hospital to start her shift, she’d detoured down to the port. She’d worked her

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