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My breath hitches when he twirls a lock of my hair in his hands distractedly.
“That would be ridiculous considering we’re not dating,” I say.
“True. But we’re friends. Right?” he asks, pulling away.
My hands twitch, itching to reach for him and have him hold me longer. But I don’t. Instead I plaster on a smile and nod.
“Of course we are.”
I have a feeling by this time tomorrow, that word will be like ash in his mouth. Friends. As if there was ever a possibility.
I’m proven right when I get a call from my dad the next morning. He’s planning on waving a white flag. Going with Katerina’s idea. We’re meeting with the De Luca’s later tonight. Thanks to Tony I know without a doubt that they have no plans to negotiate or agree to our terms. The meeting could be very well a trap and I don’t hesitate to tell him so. I already told Katerina so as well. Even if it’s not a trap, it’ll only be an advantage to them because they’ll get to know exactly who we are. Before now, the Mincetti’s have been ghosts in New York. Unknown. Now we’re about to reveal ourselves to people who want to take us down. It’s a bad idea.
But dad’s pretty insistent that we have at least one face to face with them. And I have no choice but to go. He doesn’t have all the facts. He doesn’t know I’ve been meeting up with Tony to get some information.
It’ll be a disaster.
The thought makes me feel fucking ill.
CHAPTER9
Tony
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me?!”
Roman looks up at me, his expression completely unamused.
“Now’s not the time for a tantrum, T. It’s happening. We’re doing this.”
My blood grows hot.
“Rome, I respect you. I really do. You’re my brother, my Don, I’d follow you anywhere. But if you think I’m going to walk into a room where the man who murdered my mother will be at and not kill him, you really don’t know me at all.”
“We’re not going to kill him. Especially not when he’s walking into our territory willingly. Where’s the honor in that? We should at least hear what they have to say.”
“Fuck honor. I say we kill them all and be done with it.”
Roman’s eyes flash and he gets to his feet.
“Listen, I know you’re going through shit. And I get it. I understand. But think, Tony. What do we really know about the Mincetti’s? We might know how Eduardo looks and we know he has at least a daughter. But apart from that, what do we really know about that family? Is Eduardo still even the Don? Who’s his heir?” Roman questions, moving to place a hand on my shoulder, his eyes are dark and intense.
“We have a chance to get answers to those questions. We’ll fight another day and I promised you your revenge. You’ll have it. But if you can’t control yourself at this meeting, then it’ll be better if you’re not there.”
I push his hand off and glare. “I’ll be there. I’ll look that son of a bitch in the eye and I won’t do anything. Have your meeting. And pray no one pisses me the fuck off.”
Roman sighs and I take a seat on his couch beside Michael.
“What’s the plan?” Michael questions.
“They’re meeting us at Dunwich building in Manhattan. It’ll be a table discussion. We’ll go with a few of the capos. I already sent the Mincetti’s the details. The Don’s bringing some of his men as well. I don’t know how many and it doesn’t really matter. No weapons allowed.”
“You’ve got to be-”
Roman cuts me off.
“What were you expecting? We’re not going to fight so why do we need weapons?”
My jaw clenches but I don’t reply. He moves on to other stuff. Security at the building and then he talks to Michael about cameras and their plans to do background checks on every man that shows up tonight.
