“Everything will be fine. Just do as they tell you and you’ll be okay.” He cuts the line and glares at me with a mix of rage and terror in his eyes. “You motherfucker! She’s just a child.”
“Your niece is twenty. The same age as my stepsister was when your cousin Alvino kidnapped her with the intent of forcing her to marry him. She was almost killed in the clusterfuck that ensued.”
“That was years ago! And I had nothing to do with it.”
“I don’t give the slightest f**k, Efisio. Camorra dared to come at mine. I do the same, only worse. However, if you agree to leave Boston peacefully, not a hair will be harmed on the girl. You don’t, and I kill her. Capisci?”
“You wouldn’t harm an innocent girl. Alvino was a deranged asshole, but you’re not that far gone, Spada.”
I brace my elbows on the
