Page 54 of Disgrace

“Well, that wasn’t my plan to begin with. It was yours—it didn’t work really well for us.”

“Keep taking those shots at me, man.”

Darren rolled his eyes. “I mean, let’s go at them from a different direction. From behind, in a way. Make it hard for them to do business. Rough up the streets where their Capos have control. Step in between their contacts keeping things under control.”

For a long while, silence stretched on between the two brothers.

Then, Kev spoke. “I like it.”

“Thought you would.”

“You know, I got word someone saw Johnathan Marcello around here shortly before the fire started,” Kev said.

Darren cleared his throat. Out of the corner of Siena’s eye, she saw Darren look in her direction before going back to the conversation at hand.

“That so?” he asked.

“Apparently.”

“Anything else?”

“So far, the investigator agrees an accelerant was used, and they’ve called it an arson.”

“Just like my place,” Darren muttered.

“But hey, we know who probably did it,” Kev said.

“Yeah, I guess so.”

“We’ll get him.”

“Among many,” Darren agreed. “For now, though, where do we live?”

Kev laughed dryly. “Well, Ma wants me over there. You, too.”

“For a while, that’s fine. But you know how it is.”

“That won’t work with Siena, though,” Kev put in. “She’s the one handling Greta and Giulia, you know what I mean?”

“Ma won’t have Dad’s bastards going in and out of her house all the time. She puts on a good show, sure, but—”

“She’ll only take so much.”

“You could just say fuck the girls for now,” Darren offered. “Focus on everything else.”

“I need them compliant, just in case.”

“Sure, sure.”

“Siena’s enforcer said she did well while we were gone—never acted out of line.”

Siena smiled at that—faintly so it couldn’t be seen. All the while, she never looked away from the men cleaning up the mess that was once her brother’s home.

Good things were coming her way.

She could tell.

“She’s still got her apartment, too,” Kev added quietly. “A couple of months there with an enforcer looking after her won’t be a big deal. I even got the guy to check on the building—there’s an apartment available two doors down from hers.”