Page 108 of Waste of Worth

It wouldn’t.

He took the garment bag from his brother, finding a clean blazer and silk shirt inside. Uncaring that people were watching, he quickly changed clothes, though a guard stepped forward to check his items to make sure he wasn’t handing something over, before Theo could take the dirty stuff.

“Thank you,” Dino said to his brother.

Sometimes, a clean shirt made all the difference to a man’s attitude.

Theo shrugged. “Not a big deal.”

Yeah, it was.

The brothers weren’t friends, not really.

Theo didn’t have to be there.

Honestly, he shouldn’t have been there at all.

Dino was still grateful that he was.

Damian Rossi, however, was another story.

“Brought your friend along for a show?” Dino asked, nodding in Damian’s direction.

The man stood a few feet back, out of earshot of the conversation, but still close enough that he could step forward and join if he wanted to.

“What?” Theo asked.

“Never mind.”

Dino didn’t share the closeness with Damian that Theo did. When the two men were younger, Damian and Theo were practically inseparable, and they often added little Lily to the mix as well. He supposed it wasn’t his place to question it all.

Theo stared down the long hallway, keeping his gaze anywhere but Dino. He understood his brother’s distance, as he too tried to maintain the same aloof attitude, though his was not as much of a façade as his brother’s was.

Theo simply needed someone to break through his walls.

Dino could never let his walls down.

“Hey,” Dino said, gaining Theo’s attention, “do me a favor?”

“Sure.”

“Keep an eye on Lily for me, check up on where she is in Europe from time to time, send her cash if she needs it, or whatever. She’s probably going to think I’m ignoring her or—”

“I can let her know what’s going on with you,” Theo interrupted quietly.

Dino shook his head. “I don’t want her to know.”

He didn’t want his younger sister coming back home for him, because he knew what would happen if she did step foot back on US soil. Their uncle would get his claws into her, and there she would be, fucked and stuck doing whatever the hell Ben demanded.

As long as Lily was out of reach for Ben, she would continue to be okay.

Dino needed to make sure that happened for her.

His sister might not understand his silence, she might even think he’d forgotten about her, and the festering bitterness she already felt about their life, the mafia, and the death of their parents might grow into something larger than her already small life.

It was a risk Dino was willing to take.

For his siblings, he’d risk everything.