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I pretend like my heart doesn’t shatter a tiny bit at those words. He leaves and I’m left alone. I sit there for a long time mourning the loss of something that was never really anything to begin with.
Katerina calls me, worried and I know I have to go home. When I arrive, I immediately go to check up on my cousin. He’s in a lot of pain but like Tony said he’ll live. Tony’s proficiency with knives was surprising. I’ve always hated knives.
“That bastard has crazy aim,” Rico murmurs, slightly delirious from the drugs.
“Yeah he does,” I whisper, running my hand through his soft brown hair.
He falls asleep soon after and I head over to my sister’s room.
“Papa’s really angry. It didn’t go the way he wanted at all,” Katerina informs me.
“Papa shouldn’t have taunted someone that was grieving the death of his mother,” I retort, pulling on one of her sleepwear.
Katerina gives me a funny look.
“What?” I ask.
She shakes her head. “Nothing.”
I get on the bed. “I guess we’re at war, huh?” I ask my sister.
“Yeah. But we’ll be okay.”
I fall asleep to the thought of Tony. And I find myself today never happened at all and we can be two strangers who found each other and tried to open their hearts out to one another. But we’re not. We’re the farthest thing from that.
* * *
“How couldyou keep something so important from me?!” our father yells, pacing the length of his office.
Kat definitely gets it from him. We stay quiet, when he gets mad like this, it’s better not to speak unless spoken to. We just told him about approaching both Enzo Russo last year and Anthony Legan recently. We didn’t specifically tell him that we slept with each men but I’m sure he got the gist. He has every right to be mad. But we thought we were doing the right thing.
“The both of you, I can see I’ve given you too much freedom. Why would you go behind my back like this? I never asked you to do these things.” He looks at Kat. “You should have shown better judgement, Katerina. Why did you approach Enzo Russo?”
“I wanted to see if he would be interested in an alliance with us, Papa. I was trying to help.”
“That’s not helping. It’s a show of weakness. You made us look desperate. We’re not fucking desperate. Not then and especially not now!” he yells.
Katerina shrinks backward. More than anything she hates disappointing our dad.
“And you,” he says facing me. “Anthony Legan has a vendetta against this family. You’re lucky he didn’t kill you.”
He almost did.
“He had no idea who I was, Papa,” I say soothingly.
My father runs a hand over his face before he finally stops pacing and takes a seat.
“I supposed the damage is done. Next time, tell me before you make any moves behind my back. I despise not having all the information. You both know this.”
“It won’t happen again, Papa,” Kat tells him.
“Alright,” he says. “We need to consider our options now. They know who we are. What do you think they’ll do next?”
I already have an inkling after considering it all morning, “The D’Angelos have a direct link to the FBI. The De Luca’s will probably try to exploit that. My best guess would be exposing our identities to the authorities. We should tighten security on our building.”
My dad nods. “I have enough law enforcement agents on my payroll to prevent anything too serious.”
“We should probably start making use of the spies we planted,” Katerina points out.
