Salvatore called the meeting for nine that night, both families gathered in the Marchetti study for the first time since the truce was signed, and Elena could feel the wrongness of the room the second she walked into it — too many old enemies sitting too close together, too much history pretending to have been resolved by a handshake and a wedding date.
She laid the photographs on the desk herself, Damian standing beside her instead of across from her, which she noticed both fathers noticed.
"This mark was burned into the Halsted warehouse wall this afternoon," she said. "It matches a symbol stamped on a shell casing outside Altomare two nights ago." She glanced at Damian, giving him the choice, and he took it without hesitating.
"It also matches a mark carved into my mother's car eleve
