What Romano Kept
Caden
Something that involves Caden directly. Something Caden doesn’t know about himself.
I read Sophia’s message over Aria’s shoulder and felt something shift in my chest that wasn’t fear exactly. More like the specific awareness of a man who has spent three weeks uncovering his father’s secrets and has just been informed there is apparently still one more.
Of course there was one more.
There was always one more with Romano.
“We should go back,” Aria said, already turning.
“Yes,” I said.
She told the others something vague about Sophia needing us, the way she’d gotten very good at saying exactly enough to redirect without alarming, and David read her face and read mine and nodded once and said they’d carry on walking for a bit.
We went back.
Sophia was at the ki
