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“Yeah” I took his hand “Let’s go to bed, toot so much to do”

He groaned and followedus both to fall

“Love you” He snickered when I tried to wiggle out of his arhter

Sighing, I gave up “Love you too”

Like always, he fell asleep with ease I, on the other hand, just lay there brushingthe number one rule my father had always cautioned me to

Never get comfortable because I will only know peace the day I die

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“I ao, that somber city – first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent"

~ Saul Bellow

LIAM

He was so shitless and desperately anxious I had seen a lot throughoutdamn well I was only thirty-six years old But thirty-six in mafia years had to be the equivalent to at least sixty years for nor atup to fix the tie around his neck every few e as fuck

“Ethan” I didn’t bother facing hih the email Declan had sent me, but I heard as his whole body shifted towards me

“Yes, dad?”

“Is so with your bow tie?”

He paused before speaking “Uhh…I don’t think so”