E

he pain remained and intensified. I l

f gunshots on my body. I was lucky she mis

my sister Celestina. She was more like Maverick, who was naive a

urt, but I needed to know if she made it out saf

me. I had to make sure her father wouldn't put a bounty on my head. I couldn't afford t

rils was the smell of ethanol, blood

that I hadn't seen for over a decade, but I must be hall

saw was the old painted ceiling. I knew where

so dry I could drink

d the familiar deep v

h, Dio." I stared at my mother's brother. He was alive. I wasn

cle Gian Carlo Silvano. He was the best uncle I could ever ask for. When he died, I lost

it," he said in Italian

ense pain and thr

y uncle tightly. "Where have you been? I should have shot myself

e on the cheeks. "You grow old, son, but handsome

w older, but his eyes were sparkling. He looked

days and came back still empty and sad. One day, he just left an

closer to Gian Carlo than him, and he was fine with that. He even once told me t

ld be dead by now," he said half-jokingly. "I patched you u

u're a do

h. A

him go just yet. "Did you knock me out with a horse

low dose of Propofol so I can take out the

ened? Does Papa know you're still

our father, but I'm still updated with what's going on in your life. I wish I could take you

. I wish you were there to guide me.

live, son. I already started a ne

ng around his finge

ive years now, but we're not

y for you

still an Italian marri

e you agai

adopt a cat or a dog an

lmingly emotional. "It's re

hugged me one more time before he walked out the

o make myself look like in pain so

Gio came with a plastic

ts and emptied the bottle

e's safe with Marco, boss. Don't worry, I just talke

ngry. We need to br

if I had just lost the fun

e. I need to know who. If I give her to Fran

you fucking insane, T? Does she know you're the one who killed her brother? If she finds

gures out who I am, she gets two choices- to run away an

" His brow

ere my pla

. "I thought we went to the fucking

anged when she said she was already arranged to someone else." Also, something that I

nly rang, and i

one and checked the c

t on s

. "You're o

esc

sked even if I hear

throw and break something,

disp

one job, and yet you let her slip away. Get ready and p