“Where were we?” I paused to dab the seawater from my face with my silk handkerchief. “Oh, yes, anything else?”
“Just that Stefano paid Mariano a lot of money to find your girl. He was supposed to deliver her to him but didn’t. I guess he wasn’t ready to give her up just yet.”
I cleared my throat and tugged on my suit jacket, trying to focus on the fact that she was still with me, and that Mariano would be taken care of very soon.
“Stupid coward,” Jacob hissed like the reptile he was. “You betrayed your oath to me and to the Coppola name!”
“Since you still have your eyes, you can watch this.” I directed my comment to the guy who had given me the info.
I dragged Jacob by his shirt over to a grinding wheel and signaled for Vinni to turn on the machine and watched as the coarse stone spu
