The Five-Year Lie, A Mafia Wife's Vows

For five years, I believed my husband and father when they told me they had executed my cousin for her betrayal.

Then I saw her in a clinic, holding the hand of a little boy who had my husband's eyes.

My entire marriage was a lie, a conspiracy to keep a Mafia alliance stable while he lived a secret life with her and their son.

I was the placeholder wife, and I soon discovered their plan to have me drugged, declared insane, and buried alive in an asylum.

So on the night they threw a party to celebrate their perfect family, I sent a gift.