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Chapter One

Fabrizio Vitali

Queens, New York July 1979

“Dad, you can’t be serious,” I say pacing his office Why is he doing this to me? I have been a loyal foot soldier not to eous, to say the least

“Don’t be so dramatic, Fabrizio You still have an entire al You can still sow your wild oats until then Hell, no one would think any less of you for keeping a irl” Fuck that I’d think less of myself

He can’t be serious about this though A twenty-nine-year-old ed to a seventeen-year-old girl, granted she’ll be eighteen e marry, but still it’s fucked up Beyond fucked up and I can’t believe that it’s really happening I’ before then While I a in irl Hoful thissuspicion that she would be forced to St Francis’ church without knohat the fuck is going on

“Again, I say, you can’t be serious She’s a fucking child”

“She’s hardly a child, besides, you won’t evenschool run by nuns until two days before her eighteenth birthday The wedding will take place on her birthday Really, you are the one acting like a child Her father is keeping her safe from our enemies until you can marry her You know this must happen to prevent all-out ith Santucci’s I a to happen in the extre me

“Can’t you just band together? Why does it always have to be ahis order

“You knoell as I do thatthat willthat shoe are serious in our commitment to one other”

“I guess I get that I do But why me? Why not Alberto?” I demand, my ar I a like a child now

“Because he’s promised to Maria Durante You know this He has been since she was born You knoe do things we don’t want to do in this business We do what needs to be done It’s inevitable, Fabrizio You know that it is We do e must in order to survive Always have, alill We have to make alliances all over the northeast just to stay alive I know you, son Don’t do anything rash between now and then,” he warns in the same tone he used on me as a boy

“Like what?” I spit out venomously

“Marry someone else just to spite me You knohat I airl you think you can use to manipulate this alliance Fuck whoever you want to, make a thousand babies with all of them but do not h water Don’t test me on this”

“You’re an asshole,” I spit out

“I have to be, and you’ll be one too soht hand You both will ree with, but it will be for the greater good You’ll see Go Now Send yourabout this He’s right though He knows I’ll do anything to keep s I have no business doing, like reeing to this I a those that need killing and I have no qualms about it I’ll do what I always do and kill to protectin co, but no one will ever know that

Curious about the future Mrs Fabrizio Vitali, I had uise that I wouldn’t be going into this blindly When I got the picture, I just about sed irl is only seventeen Then and there, I decided that it wouldn’t be a hardship to marry her and that I would always be true to her So, this is how I find ht to Paris Iinto with me