Chapter 37
Lucia was smart.
She was also a bitch –
But she was smart, I’d give her that.
She’d deduced the one inconvenient fact behind the entire shitshow of the last 24 hours:
That ultimately, my brothers and I were the reason behind everything that had happened.
The attack on the palazzo…
The kidnappers at the university…
The two of us being forced to go on the lam.
Now, I took it for granted that murder and mayhem were just part of being in the Cosa Nostra.
(And of having treacherous relatives, although that was a different matter.)
The Widow certainly didn’t seem to blame us for bringing a war to her doorstep…
But I couldn’t deny what Lucia had said.
There was a 99% chance that none of this would have ever happened if I hadn’t flown to Venice yesterday morning.
So I could understand Lucia being angry…
But I was angry, too.
I’d risked my life any number of times to save both her and her grandmother.NôvelDrama.Org: owner of this content.
But…
That argument didn’t hold much water when it was me who had put them in danger in the first place.
I didn’t feel bad about that. Like I said – part of being in the Cosa Nostra.
The Widow knew the risks and the downsides.
And Fausto and Aurelio were ultimately the ones to blame.
But it wasn’t like I could feign total innocence in all of this.
Still, Lucia’s attitude rankled me…
Maybe because I knew she was right. Or at least partially right.
One good thing about her figuring it out, though:
She didn’t talk to me for the next two hours. Not even to complain.
So there was a huge upside to her being a bitch, for once.