Chapter 3
Duchy of Aragoni
Marco
I TOOK A SHOWER, dressed in a comfortable suit, and prepared to go to the Council meeting. The boys were romping around in their room, so I took a minute to give each of them a hug. Dani, who was sitting on the floor in the middle of the room playing with them, looked up at me expectantly as I was making the rounds.
“Don’t worry, babe,” I said, “you’ll get yours later.”
I bent down and kissed him. “Knock ’em dead, Conte Marco,” he said.
“Yeah. See you later.”
I took the elevator to a sub-basement level and walked down the wide underground corridor to the adjacent building, which housed the administrative offices for all of the various family enterprises as well as the Council chambers. In the Council chambers, I took my seat at the head of the long t
