the uninvited images of

he pouring rain, clothes soaked, eyes red, claiming she'd left a mission report in Dante's car and feared the Capos' puni

t on Dante's desk. He looked at it, his expression placid. "Tess lost it while run

d straight into the hall, ignoring me entirely, an

t to her. "Be more careful next time," he sa

the most feared ma

pectful to Dante. Men had lost fingers for less. Yet her behavior

eamed, I shattered glasses, I demanded to kno

s full of irrational thoughts. Tess is a valuab

as if I were a s

walked out of the room, leaving