He Called Me Fat. The Don Called Me Wife

For a decade, Adele Moretti holds on to her place as Vito’s fiancée, swallowing the jokes about her weight and trusting that marriage will come in time. But when she learns Vito has been bending the tradition all along to keep another woman near him, everything she believed falls apart. At last, when the red slip is drawn, Adele chooses herself and steps onto Luca’s boat. Chosen without secrecy and loved without hesitation, she begins again—while Vito understands too late what he has lost.