ena

a duty performed with the detached precision of a machine. For the first week, he replied with a s

he send any messages. The absence of his na

the quarters, my focus narrowed to the c

Gianna entered the room

onto her bed, where it l

to the other two female

as Gianna flick

klace caught the ha

d fire that spoke of the blood-soaked so

Gianna said, accompanying the

s," one of the

or a month. He takes me to the most expensive restaurants and buys o

edger, my pen hovering usele

"He is a Capo, notoriously cold. He has never pursue

"A Falcone does not beg

e wood of my pen groaning u

o weeks to confess his devotion

t fire to the docks just to s

amonds for a woman he

identity had wounded his pride. He was ma

check hidden inside

n. Gianna would get her Capo, an

ay the loan sharks, and wipe

e ledger an

d ring to deliver the betting

not even

ares. I told myself I felt nothing, but the check in my ledger grew