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I grabbed the paperweight on the desk, to randmother’s horror, as I aimed at his head

“Ethan!”

CRASH!

The glass ball grazed right past his head into the wall and shattered, but not before putting a dent in the hardwood Wyatt nearly fell over as he turned to look at me

“You may beyour fucking disrespect slide! Watch your tone”

Silence

All of them

Wyatt took a deep breath before sitting his wounded ass down He tapped his cane into the floor “Ethan, I a to understand, because right now it looks like the ht, happens to be related to the sarandmother and set out to kill us”

“The Orsini family worked for the Giovanni farandfather Orlando They coainst the Callahans The Callahans committed crimes back We are half Giovanni and half Callahan To become that, we told them to drop the feuds They listened Have any of you been hurt by the Affini or the Orsini family since?”

None of them spoke

“Then what is the problerandmother “What happened to you in the past cannot dictate o, Nana”

“Isn’t the fact that I let Fiorello Orsini into this house proof that I am? The man that killed your aunt and tried to killin this house His fa,”from her seat “You lead this family, Ethan, so it is your choice, as always I do not know this Calliope well; however, you have claimed her as yours, so she’s yours”

“But?”

“Until rave, I will never trust any Orsini…living or dead, naed or not,” she said as she took her leave

And this hy the blood feuds never ended