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I walk over to the sofa on wobbly legs and sit down on the edge, fingers gripping it

Gabe stays standing by theThe light fra him look incandescent And beautiful So very beautiful

He’s not looking ataround in my head

"I used to sleep o trafficking, racketeering, and ht his parents were dead Apparently not

He’s not saying anything I think he’s waiting for o with the latter, as that seems more important "So, your parents aren’t dead They’re in prison," I say in a quiet voice

"Yes" His voice is rough

"Both of theot all the time in the world"

His eyes finallyriot in them It makes inally frolances at me, a question in his eyes, and I shake randfather was the head of the farandfather built up a business relationship with a Jewish randfather sent as to secure the deal with the Jews, and he was to head up the running of it

"My dad met my mother, as the niece of the Jewish ot married I was born a few years later Tate, five years after that Together, they ran several casinos Or so I thought The casinos were a front for the h the casinos"

He comes and sits down on the sofa chair beside me I shift to face him

"I knew they weren’t squeaky clean I knew s Kids would say stuff about the at home a few times But, honestly, I didn’t know the true extent of it I didn’t know they were s or…that they’d killed people

"I was seventeen when the house was raided, and ht Tate and I were dragged from our beds, put into the back of a police car, and driven to a boys’ ho We only knee read in the newspapers in the following days They wouldn’t let us see our parents Tate was devastated Then, I heard thatand the oing hohteen in six h to know that I’d stay in the boys’ ho twelve, they would try to reho to lose Tate as well So, we left My parents’ assets had been frozen by the governs in ht two bus tickets to Los Angeles I thought the idea of living near the beach sounded good So, we rode the bus here, and I decided to change our surna for us"

"So, your real name is Gabriel Russo?"

"Yes"