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And she was.

“Plane takes off in three hours,” Dante said.

Cross passed a sleeping Cece into her grandfather’s arms. “Just enough time for you to get to the airstrip, then.”

“About that.”

Further down the hallway, Catrina and Catherine quietly talked. Cross couldn’t hear their conversation, but he didn’t really need to. Besides, he had his own pressing matters to handle at the moment.

“She’ll have fun at the Florida vacation house,” Dante said. “She always likes the beach.”

Cross smoothed a hand over the crown of his daughter’s head. “Hopefully this won’t take too long, anyway.”

“Take as long as you need to make sure it is done, Cross.”

He heard his father-in-law’s words loud and clear.

End them.

“It’ll be done,” he said.

“Have you considered closing ranks in the Three Families to have strength in numbers or some back up?”

Cross shook his head. “It’s still only a Donati problem. The Donati people will handle it.”

“Ah, I see.”

“At least with Cece gone for a while, the cops won’t be bothering us about her.”

Dante frowned. “Come again?”

“Detectives at the hospital. They wanted me to hand Cece over to do interviews with a child forensic psychologist about the shooting.”

“Of course they did,” his father-in-law grumbled.

“I refused.”

“It’s your right as the parent. Be concerned, however, if they attempt to legally force her testimony.”

“That’ll only happen in the event of a Grand Jury or trial.”

“I suppose.”

“And we won’t be having either of those at all, Dante, not when I remove the people causing us all these issues.”

Dante chuckled. “Mmm, true.”

“Still pissed me off like nothing else, though,” Cross said.

“It’ll pass. Once everything is said and done, it will all pass.”

Hopefully.

“But should you find yourself over your head,” Dante added when Cross stayed silent, “remember that John and Andino have phone numbers, and you have a phone.”

“Yeah, I’ll remember.”

How not to use them.