Chapter 8
Nico
I’m like a Jedi knight. I swear I feel the ripple in the force field when my brother enters the state. I am no longer king of my hill.
The big dog is in town.
Junior is the first born, ten years older than I am, and scary as f**k. As a kid, there were times I was sure he would kill me. He’d hold my head under the water in the pool until I started to pass out, or sit on me and box my ears until I’d do anything and everything he asked me to. Our father didn’t tell him to lay off, probably because he raised Junior and my other brothers the same way. Violence is part of our world. It was part of our family life, too.
I never took my s**t out on my younger brother, though. I looked out for Stefano, protected him from our big brothers, cousins and father. And in return, he be
