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"You call me up and say it’s important--so important I take time out of ?"

"Yes"

"This better be good"

Car as he inhaled the scent of the food, and forced the words fro married tomorrow"

"Of course I know," he replied "I received my invitation and made plans to come I am still invited, correct?"

"Correct"

"Okay, then There’s no problem I already made sure to clear your schedule for the weekend, so you shouldn’t have any probleed at his wording "It’s not that"

"Then what is it? I’ive Haven away"

Corrado stared across the table at hi, as if he hadn’t heard Carh, and after ato process the words "Give her away"

"Yeah, you knoalk her down the aisle e get married"

"I knohat you mean, Carmine"

"Her dad, wellyou know And I’d ask my dad, but wellyou know"

Corrado had killed theht it

"Fine," he said "I’ll do it"

Carmine’s eyes widened He had expected a staunch denial "No shit?"

"Language"

He blanched "I mean, uhso you’ll do it?"

"Yes"

Carh to cal within a block of that building put hi," Corrado pointed out "Were you that nervous to ask me?"

"No," he replied "I was, but that’s not my problem"

"Then what is?"

Carmine stared at his uncle, baffled how he could seem so comfortable "It doesn’t bother you to be here?"

"Why would it?" Corrado eyed him with confusion "I eat here all the time"

"Yeah, but" He leaned over the table, whispering "his kids"

Corrado had killed them, too Both of them

Corrado’s eyes drifted past hi, Caruely recognized thehere a few tih, that saved him that October day He owed him a lot--his life, to be precise--but Carreh

Sensing the attention--or maybe it was purely coincidence--John chose that moment to look at the two of them His expression remained stoic, strictly business, but Carmine could sense the deep sadness in his dark eyes

"I did what I had to do," Corrado said "Had I let them live, had I let them continue as they were, my family would’ve been jeopardized So no, it doesn’t bother ht"

Corrado stood, heading for the door, and nodded politely to John Tarullo before disappearing outside

After taking a shower and putting on some comfortable clothes, Haven ht on in the kitchen Carerator with the door wide open, glaring inside of it, home from wherever he had been while she was at school She didn’t ask, and he didn’t tell