~Victor POV~
My Aunt Lita and Uncle, Don Giovanni Carmine Bernardi requested a meeting with me, and I had accepted. My Uncle, Don Giovanni, was my Aunt Lita’s first cousin. He was older by 5 years and was based out of the West Coast. My uncle was a formidable mafia head and had three sons, Dante, Otello and Rafael. Dante and Otello were older than me by four and two years, respectively, while Rafael was younger than me by five years. Growing up, my side of the family were not particularly close to them due to an old family rivalry that spanned decades, and though it is all resolved now, the fissure between the West Coast Bernardi’s and the East Coast Bernardi’s was not something that was easily mended.
It all began with my Great Grandfather, Don Stephano Rafael Bernardi. He had two iden
