[Amelia]
A mafia family is two-faced by nature: they have to be in order to operate both above and beneath the law. On the surface, the Blasi family pretends to be upstanding, when in reality, they have the power and force to make people disappear. I know it’s only a matter of time before I’m that person who vanishes–even Don Blasi warned Lucas to get rid of me for his own good, only moments after saying he approved of me.
Lucas himself isn’t any different. He pretended to be a nice, regular, average boy. He was my friend, and at one point I had been hoping we might become more. Now I know I can’t trust him, no matter how he makes my heart flip sometimes. No, it’s especially because of that feeling that I need to keep him at arm’s length.
And now Vanessa, standing outside my door, is de
