Page 371 of John + Siena: The Complete Duet

“You don’t owe me shit, Michel. Don’t think you have to keep working in this famiglia because of me. I—”

“You and Andi made it easy for me to come back and … well, what is it that I even do?”

That was easy. “You have my back.”

Michel threw him a look.

John returned it.

“How’s Gabbie feel about all of this?” John asked, referring to the man’s wife.

“She told me it was inevitable.”

“She’s probably not wrong.”

“Dad said the same.”

John did laugh at that one. “You know they all wanted this even if they never explicitly said it to us.”

“You mean, all of us in the family business carrying it on?”

“Yeah, exactly that.”

Michel let out a heavy breath. “Yeah, they did. I know.”

Well, shit.

It was what they all did best.