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Which he had

I’d learned only after we’d left our father’s overpriced, oversizedwas already in Luca’s na able to keep the noose around Luca’s neck for his entire life that he’d started transferring assets to either Luca’s name or the business in order to stay under the IRS’s radar

But Luca had slipped the noose and it had cost our father everything

By the ti hih money to survive on… and he’d only done that out of respect for our mother For whatever reason, she’d loved Vidone Covello and Luca hadn’t been willing to shit on that

But despite Luca being able to break free of our father’s control, he’d known fro Vidone’s business and assets, Luca had also inherited the man’s enemies

The solution had taken its toll on Luca, but he’d been adamant that he wouldn’t lose his son the e’d both lost our reed with hied the boy was his child, even after he’d told our father about him He’d still showered his son with all the love he could and he’d given hi money could buy and had ths we’d had to go to while Luca had spent time with his son had been extreo pick his kid up frooing to school carnivals or any of the little plays that Gio’s class would put on

Any activity where Luca’s real name could come out had had to be nixed, but that hadn’t meant there hadn’t been lots of family dinners both at V’s house and at the house in the Hamptons Our entire little extended family had bonded with Gio and hadelse But we’d had to work harder than most families to make it happen

But it had worked because Gio had been safe from Luca’s enemies

Until an ene had snuck under our radar and stolen both Gio and V from us

And changed Luca’s – and all our lives – forever

“You took hi, huh?” Luca asked after a few er at Luca for his role in trying to abduct Aleks was still there, but I’d had time to accept that desperation and a sense of betrayal had driven loves since then, so I did believe that if he’d been successful in taking him in Seattle, he wouldn’t have allowed any harm to come to him

“Yeah,” I said as I glanced at my brother The fact that I’d taken Aleks up in the little Piper single-engine plane was pretty telling Even back before Gio had gone ht it for me and surprised me with it one day, I hadn’t taken anyone up in it with uy at the private airport nearby a small fortune to store the plane for me and to keep up the maintenance on it, but I wasn’t sure if Luca had known that