Chapter 008

20 YEARS LATER

A FEW MONTHS AGO...

~MARIO~

'Who knew that I would have achieved so much in my life when I lost both my parents and little brother the same night 20 years ago?'

Everything I knew, I owed Roman Antonelli. He took me and my sister in and raised us.

He worked with drug dealers and made lots of money shipping and selling drugs to the local junkies.

When his wife died in childbirth and he followed a few months later, I took Arianna under my care and raised her as my sister.

Francesca and I never told her the truth about her parents.

We didn't want her to grow up with that void in her heart that she had no one to call her blood family.

The truth about her true parents became our secret.

I was coming back from one of my meetings in town when I saw a figure upstairs with a gun.

I closed the front door slowly, and it didn't make any creaking sounds. Francesca was upstairs alone.

There was no one in sight when I came in. I could only hope that the smuggler in my house