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VINCENZO "I-i didn't know..." Lena chocked back on her sobs as she shook her head softly. Ten years ago, my mother died in a drive by shooting. Shoot by a gun that came from the same hand that my family trusted. The Greeks. It was this one singular act from the Greeks that instigated a war that didn’t have to happen. But who would have thought years later I would fall in love with the illegitimate daughter of our enemy and even wife her? Of course Lena had no knowledge of what happened in the past and neither of us ever thought that she had such a strong tie to Ciro Petrakis? I should have made the connections sooner. But even if I did, there was no going back. I’d already bared my heart out for this woman. The same heart I thought I’d buried the day I watched my mother get lowered six
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