1940s Playlist

Bing Crosby—“Just One More Chance”

Fedora Mingarelli—“Un’ora sola ti vorrei”

Oscar Carboni—“Tango del mare”

Alfredo Clerici—“T’ho vista piangere”

Glenn Miller—“Elmer’s Tune”

Cesare Andrea Bixio (sung by Beniamino Gigli)—“Mamma son tanto felice”

Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra—“All the Things You Are”

OceanofPDF.com This is a dark romance with triggering situations such as stalking, cheating (not between love interests), graphic violence and murder, graphic language, on-page rape and domestic violence (not between love interests), alcohol addiction and codependency with an addict, mentions of infertility and traumatic labor, and explicit sexual situations.

There are also kinks such as degradation, breath play, and fear play.

Please heed these warnings seriously.

Your mental health matters.

OceanofPDF.com First, please keep in mind that this story takes place during the 1940s. Not only was the language slightly different then but the value of the dollar was also vastly different from what it is now.

While I tried to stay accurate to the time period, some liberties may have been taken for the sake of the story.

Second, if you are reading this after the Cat & Mouse Duet, then you are familiar with Gigi’s diary. Please note that Gigi wrote in her journal every day, so there are hundreds of entries detailing events and information that you may be unaware of.

Happy reading!

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Big earner: Someone who makes a lot of money for the family

Bird: A pretty woman

Blabbermouth: Someone who talks too much

Broad: A woman

Bum rap: A false accusation; being blamed for something you didn’t do

Bust your chops: To scold or chastise someone

Cafone: An embarrassment to himself and others; a phony

Capo: Short for capodecina, the family member who leads a crew

Capo di tutti i capi: Boss of bosses

Clock: To keep track of someone’s movements and activities

Come heavy: To arrive carrying a loaded gun

Consigliere: A member of the family who serves as an adviser to the don and resolves disputes within the family Contract: A murder assignment

Crew: A group of soldiers that takes orders from a capo

Cugine: A young criminal looking to be inducted into the Mafia

Dip: An idiot

Don: Head of the family

Enforcer: A person who threatens, maims, or kills someone

Empty suit: Someone with nothing to offer who tries to hang around with mobsters

Floozy: A common name for a sexually active and oftentimes promiscuous woman

Fuzz, the: A cop

Gobbledygook: Talking nonsense

Godfather: A powerful crime boss in the Mafia

Hoosegow: Jail

Jalopy: An old car

Large: A thousand, a grand, a G

Made man: An indoctrinated member of the family

Mafioso: A member of the family; a mobster

Magazine: An ammunition storage and feeding device for a firearm Make one’s bones: To gain credibility by killing someone

Numbskull: A dull, stupid or dimwitted person

Omertà: The code of silence and the vow taken when being sworn into the family

Pinched: To get caught by law enforcement

Problem: A liability, likely to be murdered

Rat: A member who violates omertà and snitches on the family

Sauced: The state of being drunk or intoxicated

Section hand: A railroad worker

Singing like a canary: To give someone, usually the authorities, a lot of secret and often illegal information

Sound, the: Puget Sound, the body of water surrounding Seattle

Take a powder: To leave

Tribute: Giving the boss a cut of the deal—violation is often punishable by death

Underboss: The second-in-command to the boss

War-tax stamps: A postage stamp used to raise war revenue

Whack/ice/burn/pop/clip: To murder

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