“Did you seriously ask my sister to kill a man?” Raven demanded first thing when she was back in their room. “What the hell is wrong with you?”
She had just been down to visit April to check in on her. She wanted to make sure she was there as soon as her younger sister woke up. After crying on her shoulder for a while and the tough conversation of having to tell her she had been there when Angelo was shot, April finally recounted her ordeal in full. Her father was there for the whole thing and he had the good grace to at least look embarrassed when she confronted him about whether or not he would have just stood by and let it happen.
“He was a dead man walking,” Cesare had reasoned. “The least we could do was offer her some closure.”
She shuddered at the imagery April had laid out befo
