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I’m not sure how the other guys didn’t see that. Salvatore usually has a better eye, but I guess he’s more tech. Vincent probably did spot it but didn’t take note. At least I did, and that goes in my good books to my credit and input in the venture.
I definitely confess I’d left all the work to everyone else for longer than I should have. It’s well past time to haul my ass in gear. We weren’t talking even in millions anymore. That was just The Dark Odyssey here. The club brought in millions on the regular, but we had to split the profits five ways. This hotel business venture would be split three ways with a onetime cut to Roberto for his investment input.And,the idea was starting off with a prediction forecast of in the billions. It was different what we had here. It was something good. Something to look forward to.
I sigh and rest my head back against the soft leather of the sofa.
I don’t know what to do with myself and part of me refuses to believe it’s actually over between Charlotte and me.
You can go claim a doll yours all you want but if she doesn’t want you then it becomes something else and I’m not into that. It’s only wild and real if she wants it too.
I’m not as crazed as most of the other guys but that doesn’t mean I’m not as badass.
It’sall, however, the problem. I’m not what she wants. Whether I’m crazy, a little bit crazy, badass when I need to be or not. I’m dangerous just for being me.
I get it. I’m a mobster. Aknownone as she quite rightly put it just for being a Giordano. There are some things I just can’t change. Can’t change that.
There’s only one guy I know who gave up the business and live the vanilla for a woman and that’s Lucian Morientz. That guy was one of the most fearedcaposon the street. A hundred times worse than Frankie or Vincent ever was, or anybody in the circle we mingle in. Anybody outside that alliance and circle are not people you even want to speak to let alone associate yourself with.
Not only did he give up the business but his doll was a cop. A fucking cop.
He runs a wine shop now. The thing is, giving it up didn’t mean the end of trouble.
His brother Claudius took over from Raphael Rossi who also happened to be his wife’s father. Long, very interesting story that became the talk of the underground for a whole year. Which was exactly the highlight of the point.
He didn’t stop being Lucian Morientz.
The only thing that changed was his mindset and options. I’ve known Lucian and Claudius for close to twenty five years and I saw him change.
When trouble came knocking on their door and trouble has come in abundance enemies didn’t care that he’d changed certain things about his life, neither did they give a shit that he’d changed as a person. It didn’t matter one way or the other. They still came for him and his nearest and dearest just the same.
His wife, however, accepted him and accepted the possibility that there could be danger beyond their control at various points in their lives because they were who they were.
It was good, admirable to some extent on her part, but she wasn’t burned by our world the way Charlotte was.
Charlotte was burned in the worse way imaginable. The kind where you knew not to hope.
I know all of that. At the same time, what grates me is all she said.
And , the fact that she’s right.
She’s right, no one could save her.
Not even the most badass person we know could step in because the one who took her was worse than them.
The click of my front door makes me frown.
I’m not in the mood to speak to anyone so if it’s Salvatore I’ll literally sit here in silence.
Who I see coming into the living room though is the exception.
Mimi.
I forgot she had keys for my place too. Jesus, it’s not a good thing for a guy like me to lose track on who has keys to my house.
She walks into the room like she lives here. In her hand are two grocery bags and one of her million and one designer purses hooked on her delicate shoulders.
I look at her with expectancy because I don’t know what the hell to say to her.
She sets all the bags down next to the larger sofa, says nothing, just gives me one of her looks and makes her way into the kitchen.
