The commission is the only thing that keeps us from eating each other alive.
- Salvatore Maranzano (former Mafia leader)
EARL
As I approach my father's study, I try to shake off the distraction that is Cameron.
I need to focus.
My phone beeps just as I meet up with one of the guards my father had sent to look for me and they both tell me the same thing; I am wanted in my father’s study.
I can feel the gears in my head turning.
No one goes into the Don’s study unless summoned.
When we were little, Nikolas snuck in once on a dare and my father had caught him.
And despite nearly having the skin whipped off his back, my brother never told him that it had been me who had dared him.
That was the kind of person my brother is…was. He’s changed now. I have to remember that.
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