The call came at 7:15 Friday morning. Ricardo had spent a restless night, dozing off for small bouts before jerking awake, his disturbing dream forgotten. He’d been “escorted” out of the house by Otto Moreira, Samanta’s godfather. Marco, to Ricardo’s increasing annoyance, was Gabe’s Godfather, while Livy was godmother to both kids.
Otto had been as abrupt and as rude as Livy and Marco had been, though Otto’s punches had been verbal, and Ricardo had nothing to hit him back with. He was a childhood friend of Carol’s—something he’d learned when Otto revealed the particulars about the death of Carol’s mother, Aubrey Montenegro. He’d known she’d died when Carol was still seven, and that her father had blamed it on the family money, but he’d never considered murder because of a ransom case gone
