While He Watched Fireworks, I Crowned His Brother

On his deathbed, in front of everyone present, Don Vittorio left his final will:

Whichever of his sons reached his bedside first would inherit the ring bearing the family crest, and would become the next Don of the Corleone family.

His second son, Damian, was all the way out in Sicily. My husband, Luca, was only ten minutes from the hospital.

It should have been a foregone conclusion.

But I called him until my phone nearly burned out, and Luca simply switched his off.

All because his first love, Sofia, was in a bad mood that night and wanted him to watch a fireworks show set off solely…