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With the spoon still her o ahead”

“They didn’t know I knew They thought I’d be distracted and tried to further cripple o After my mother’s death, the Irish and the Italians haven’t been…very close They liked, trusted, and respect h, and in honor of my mother, never stepped out of line But when he passed and I took over, they were unsure of me…even more so now that I married you, a woman one hundred percent Irish-American”

“I think h”

The wo her coed to spread a few rumors, and on top of that framed an Irish boy for the death of Italian boy” Ivy opened herher that if she cut , she stuffed a spoonful of yogurt into her mouth “However, before the Italian boy was s Shewas off…” I still didn’t kno My best guess was Tobias uard down somehow

“And then she herself killed Savino as well Tobias at the airport,” Ivy spoke again, and when I si, she frowned so hard it looked like her lip was trying to escape off her face “You weren’t saying anything; I was just trying push the conversation along before you disappeared to the dark corners of your ain”

“It’s called thinking”

“You think too rapes into my mouth “It can’t be healthy”

“It’s kept

“So, what’s happening today?”

Today was Dona’s victory party “Dona is hosting what she claims is Wyatt's welcome home brunch However, that’s just a cover which serves multiple purposes The first is to show all of us she succeeded in not only keeping peace in Chicago, but gained the respect of both the Irish and the Italians families The second and most important purpose is to show the world we, the Callahans, are not only united and unbreakable, but also both Irish and Italian…hence her choice of attire,” I said nodding over to the clothes which were displayed just at the corner of our bed “Each one of us dressed in sos”

Myself in grey and Ivy in red

“United, unbreakable, both Irish and Italian,” she whispered to herself “She’s warning the don’t fuck with the Callahan family—”

“Us,” I cut her off, just as she had done me And when her eyes met mine, I reminded her “You are Ivy Callahan”

My wife

“Don’t fuck with us” She smiled, but it was only for an instant, before she looked back to the clothes