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"So you are?" Kelsey asked "You’reinside of her "I am"

"Why?" Kelsey’s eyes darted frouessbecause of him"

Carmine stood there, arhting the urge to interject

"No, not because of him," Haven said "For him"

"Is there a difference?"

"A shed "Look, Hayden, I--"

"Hayden?" Carmine interrupted, brow furrowed "What the fuck?"

Haven frowned as she explained "That’s my name here"

"Why?"

"Corrado’s idea," she muttered "He picked it"

"Wait, what?" Kelsey shook her head in confusion "Your name here? Jesus, is that not your real name? Who are you?"

Uh-oh "I can explain" Haven paused "Well, actually, no I can’t"

"You can’t?"

She slowly shook her head Kelsey’s attention"I can’t explain either," he replied, glancing at the screen before holding his phone up "But maybe he can"

An hour later, after aard bouts of strained conversation between the three of them, Corrado showed up at the apart roo him warily

"Do you knoho I am?" he prompted

"An officer of some kind?" she asked "Isn’t that e decided?"

Corrado smirked "I’ a life sentence for a murder commissioned by Antonio DeMarco" He pointed to Carrandfather His name’s Carmine DeMarco, and his father, Vincent, died in a shootout at Salvatore Capozzi’s house" He pointed to Haven "Salvatore was her great-uncle Her name’s Haven Antonelli, and her father, Michaelwelllet’s just say it all coaped at hi open

"We’re a fao our separate ways, but at the end of the day, we’re still a fa you?"

After a few seconds of hesitation, Kelsey nodded "I grew up in New York I know all about the, uh"

"The fa her sentence for her

"The family," she repeated "My dad, he"

"He’s a senator as ushered into Congress based on his last narandfather--was the senior senator froanized crime It was because of his committee that my father was eventually convicted"

"I, uh," Kelsey sta flashed in her eyes Fear? "I didn’t--"

"I don’t believe in punishing the son for the sins of the father," Corrado continued, cutting her off "Your father doesn’t believe in it, either He and I have aof sorts about it"

"You do?"

"Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence There are no accidents in life Everything that happens is the result of a calculated move that leads us to where we are And where we are, Kelsey, is right here in this apart this conversation that never happened Capisce?"

She nodded slowly "Yes"

"Good" Corrado started for the door "Haven, Car I have one ht"

The construction site stood still at near ht, the equip, no shouting, no sawing--not even the huh the lot It appeared abandoned, but a sliver of light shining from aof the small trailer indicated otherwise