Chapter 14
Gia had never seen a house quite like Brock’s before, not up close like this. Her father was a self-made man. He’d started flipping houses at twenty-one, started a renovation company, got into leasing properties—apartments, condos, small houses, trailers—soon after that. From there he’d begun buying land and building condos and office spaces. In the last twenty-five years, Carosa Holdings had made Giancarlo Carosa rich, respectable, and successful. He lived in a big house, a modern sprawl on the lake with a steel and glass balcony, a swimming pool, and all the modern amenities. He’d had it custom designed and custom built.
This house was old, probably as old as New Orleans herself. It too had all the modern amenities, and she wondered what was more expensive in the long run, b
