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“You felt like taking a fucking walk?”
“I came to tell you that you will get arrested tonight! You need to clear the club!” He looked at me with his mouth hanging open. “I overheard Salvatore speaking with one of his informants. I’m here betraying my husband’s trust for you so don’t you dare yell at me.”
“That’s why you came?”
“Yes.”
He dragged a hand down his face and chuckled.
“No one is getting arrested.”
“There’s a special prosecutor coming…”
“I know.” He cut me off and came closer, taking my hands in his. “You’re agitated. Come sit down.”
We walked together to the couch and he never let go of my hands.
“You know?”
“Yes,Sorella, I know. The club is clean. Actually, we cleaned the whole damn city. No hookers, no drugs, no guns. Everything is over the table tonight.”
“Oh.”
“You could have saved yourself a trip.”
“I called you.” I said and I felt my eyes starting to sting. “I called all seven of you and no one answered.”
“Don’t pout. You know why we don’t take your calls.”
“Because I married Salvatore.”
“Because you broke our trust and brought shame to the Caputo name.”
I flinched, burned by that word.Shame.
“I did that? How dare you?”
“You made mistakes. You wanted to piss father off and took it too damn far.”
“Father took a mistress half his age in the same bed our mother slept in and because I married Salvatore when I didn’t feel safe in my own home, you all pushed me aside. You say I brought you shame?”
“It’s not easy for us either, Grazia.”
“Next time you feel ashamed that I am your sister, just remember that none of you wanted to speak to me today, but when Salvatore was ordered to stay away from me, he always answered when I called. Every single time.” I pushed myself away from Guido. “That’s why I married him, not to piss of Father.”
He let his eyes down. “Grazia, I didn’t mean to upset you.”
“I’ll leave.”
“Wait.” He came and caught me. “I spoke without thinking. You’re our sister and we love you, no matter what, but it’s messed up. All of us want things to settle down so we could have a sit down with Fiori, but Father is very vocal about wanting blood.”
“What?”
“Salvatore took away his little girl. He wants war, Grazia, and all of us are trying to force him to step down and let Giovani take his place as Don.”
“You can tell Father that when Salvatore bleeds than so do I. Is he ready to have all that blood on his hands?”
“No one in this family would hurt you.”
