#tw forced gender roles
Mafia Madness - Family Business
tw: forced marriage, organized crime family, forced gender roles.
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Will Hear Us Screaming at the Cold
“Elodie, Alena, Xavier,” her father greets them all at supper, kissing her and her sister on their hair, claps her sister’s husband on the shoulder. “My love.” Her mother then, a quick peck on the lips. “Ça va?”
“Ça va, Papa.” She sits straight, gentle and demure in tone and expression. “Et toi?”
“Hm, ça va, ma petite puce.”
“Les affaires marchent bien?” Elodie tracks him with her head as he moves away from her and her sister, just like everyone else does.
You don’t take your eyes off Monsieur Lavoie when he enters a room.
Mafia Madness - Initiation
tw: murder, blood, knife violence, ritualized murder, mentions of religion/Catholicism, forced gender roles, implied forced marriage, implied/threatened violence against a family member
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“You can do it, ma petite puce. I believe in you.”
Adrián pleads for his life from behind the cloth around his mouth, and Elodie cannot help but to track the tears as they make their way down his cheek.
He doesn’t want to die.
So he shouldn’t have told the Mouret family about their upcoming job.
Now, he willdie, it is just a question of if Elodie will do it or if someone else will have to.
Traitors don’t have names. Traitors don’t have faces. They lose that right the moment they squeal.
But she knows him.
