Palsy stood before Malviero, cowering anytime he turned his gaze to her.
She was still dressed in nothing but her bikini and she was back to another day filling cocaine inside a thin film and weighing it.
Her split lip was still fresh and the wound had barely closed.
From across the dining room, she caught the other women stealing quick and subtle glances at her between their tasks, their eyes lingering on her a second too long before shifting away again.
Since she was half-naked, her body was bare to their sight and her red bruises all over didn't hide at all.
Usually, she would sit with them at the dining table, filling the white substance with less pressure and eyes following her but Malviero now wanted her standing just beside him with a table in front of her, doing the same thing they were all doing.
From across the dining room, the girls could see the Don, sitting on his favourite couch in the large living room as some bagmen stacked the bulk of cocaine they had produced.
