He glanced back at me, his face grave. “Yes. Your father has been worried about your safety. Sal Amato betrayed him and did some s**t that got a lot of people mad at the family. Sal’s still on the loose, and we have a number of dangerous people angry with us.” I had been told Uncle Sal and my father had a falling out, but I didn’t know what the cause had been. I was stunned that he would betray my father. He wasn’t just a part of the family, he was also a part of my family. But then, I’d always thought something was off about him. As I grew up, I decided it was just because he was a little smarmy with his child bride and over-the-top flattery. The more I thought about it, the more I wondered how I hadn’t seen it coming. “And how do you play into all this?” “Your dad wanted someone near you
