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Dario Ferrano:

Recently, my father died He was a hardened criuy that was part of soer and more evil than any of us realized After he died I took it upon itimize and then sell the fas could move on

But little did I know that before his death he’d started the ball rolling on giving iven ift arrived on my doorstep my already chaotic world was turned on its axis

I had just gotten hoer than my arm I told my brother I could handle most of it on uys to help o, enjoy time with his new bride far away from home, away from secrets and lies and deceit He’d beena lot for the last several years and I wanted to ease his burden In our family he was the heir and I was the spare so I probably also wanted to prove that I was just as capable as he was

So after the death of our father To a go at starting a fresh life overseas, away from secrets that needed to be kept My brother decided he needed to be out of sight for a while for a couple reasons

I, however, was to be back ho the “laundry” so that we could sell off the e It was for the best The empire extended to so many dark and dank areas it was better off for all of us to just start fresh The kind of businesses he was in, though, made it so that we couldn’t just s up first

Before ifted hiirl on my brother’s life I joked with hi birthday, joked about it with emotions about

My father joked back that he was already shopping around and would findBut when I got ho I found out that before Pop died he had gotten that ball rolling He’d gotten things rolling in a way that could not be stopped and that was going to be a problem A messy problem

See, , one of the lected to tell me and my brother about as he prepared us to take over the family business We never knew that what he’d had in mind for us was just the top ski in We had suspicions but we had no clue just how filthy it truly was

Pop and I had a conversation when talking about To the non-irl ed for him to have Pop wouldn’t tell me his motives behind the choice at that point but it all unfolded over the subsequent weeks A little less than two months before my birthday he had asked me what I wanted in a bride

“What’s on your wish list, son?” Pop asked

“Beautiful Redhead But she has to hat I want from life She has to have an insatiable sexual appetite but want kids and a picket fence, too”

“How about if she’s all those things because she does exactly what you tell her to do? How about if she’s been schooled in all the ways to please a man in and out of the bedroom?”

“That’s too good to be true, Pop Too bad such a woot cut short

I’d alanted a wife and kids I wanted the picket fence and enough kids to startonreception my heart went cold and what an

After seeing To in love I decided that maybe it was ti with soot ho, ready to start theup the family business so that I couldmy own happily ever after I found out that Pop had already ordered my mail order bride And I couldn’t cancel that order

My Pop’s involve, it was deep We knew the trade existed and we knew he knew people in that trade Tommy had seen a little more of the inside of it than I had But neither of us knew that he had partnered with theet me the woman on my wish list

She’s waiting for kok She’s been told she has been sold and is going back to North America She’s about to turn 23, she’s a beautiful redhead, and she’s been in captivity for 2 years There’s no way I can accept this gift, keep a woht for me I need to pick her up and set her free Don’t I?

Tia Ferrano