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“It , loyal to an old master It means I already do not trust you It means if you cannot live up to what I have asked from you, say so now Because I will offer you only this one chance to retire and go live out your days somewhere by the beach”

He nodded “Thank you for your offer,would rather be put down than sent to a useless beach”

“I trust you won’t let s” I s down on the paper what I needed

“No, I will not”

“I will see about that,” I replied, handing hiins…or ends

Everything was about perspective

“Enjoying yourself?”

His voice was like rain on cahter, I turned to see randfather as he walked on to the patio, dressed in a suit though he had nowhere he needed to be going…or at least, nowhere he told

I nodded for O’Phelan to leave and he did My grandfather tapped the top of Gigi’s head before he took a seat in the chair across frolanced over the phones, the cards, the list, and whistled “Gifts to the new Mrs Callahan How nice”

“Soifts, others call it work,” I replied

“So long as you know the difference,” he stated, reaching for the list of guards “So long as you reifts can be taken away, and whom you work for”

“I work for myself,” I stated

“As all Orsinis should” He chuckled

I said nothing, because there was nothing I could say I could feel it, exactly what he orried about but would not say The last time he trusted anyone…It was Orlando Giovanni and, in the end, hter could be married and live happily ever after…the irony All the Orsinis had sworn then that they’d never work for another Giovanni again, let alone a damn Callahan

I couldn’t help but shakethe blood off of ain…a mother, the new head of the house…the Mrs Callahan Then he came and reminded me that I had souilt that tried to rise in the pit of my stomach I’d already come this far I’d already lied and betrayed this much so far