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Pregnancy Real Sandro had faced down men with guns, men with knives, and one man with a chainsaw in a Newark parking garage. He had never been so frightened as he was in the waiting room of Dr. Reyes's clinic, with a clipboard on his knee.NAME. DATE OF BIRTH. FIRST DAY OF LAST MENSTRUAL PERIOD.He stared at the third line for some time."I do not know this," he said."I do." Elena took the pen from his fingers, filled it in, and handed back the board with a small crooked smile. "You can hold the clipboard. It's a very important job.""I am not good at waiting.""You've waited in worse places.""Not for this."She laughed, softly, and laid her hand over his. They sat in a room with beige carpet and a ficus tree and a poster about folic acid. Rocco stood in the doorway with his back to the wall, watching the street through the glass. Dante had been left behind, protesting, with his leg propped on a chair. Four more men sat in two cars outside, engines running.It was the most guarded
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Brief Capture It was the smallest of lies, and Elena had told it for the best of reasons."Church," she had said at breakfast, when Sandro looked up from his maps. "Just an hour. Mass for Isabella, at Old St. Patrick's. Claire asked me to light a candle."That much was true. Claire had asked. What she had not said was that after the candle she would walk four blocks south to an unmarked door on East Seventy-First Street, where Dr. Reyes had promised a quiet check of her blood pressure and a list of things she must not do, and where nobody at all would know her name.Sandro had kissed her forehead. "Two men. Both at your side.""Both.""Elena.""Both," she had promised.Now she knelt in the third pew from the altar with her coat buttoned to the chin and a thin white candle between her fingers. The church smelled of beeswax and old stone and incense. The stained glass threw red and blue light over the empty benches. Her two guards stood at the back of the nave, one on each side of the
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Queen's Seat Rocco's men found them on the river dock at nine-twenty, after the lights, after the shouting, after Sandro had put a boot through a kitchen door and run across a dark lawn with his heart trying to leave his body.The speedboat idled at the end of the pier, engine low. Valentina stood in the stern with Claire in front of her, one gloved hand resting on the girl's collarbone. Six Conti riflemen ringed the dock. Rocco's team had them from the garden wall, rifles up, and for one long moment nobody moved.Then Claire spoke."I want to stay with Elena."Valentina looked down at her."I want to stay with my sister," Claire said. She was shaking, but her chin did not drop. "You're not my family just because we have the same blood. I know what family is. Family is who holds your hand at the hospital. You never came."Something went across Valentina's face. It was so brief that Sandro would not have seen it had he not been watching for it.She took her hand away."Go," she said q
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Vittorio Schemes "He wants us to walk in angry," Elena said.They sat at the kitchen table of the Upper East Side flat with the afternoon light going amber across the tablecloth and a map of the Rossi house spread between the teacups. Stefano had printed it from the original architects' file. Rocco stood at the window with his arms crossed. Sandro sat across from her, unshaven and silent, with the look of a man being slowly rebuilt from the inside."He wants you angry," she went on. "He wants you to do something loud and stupid in front of the capos. That is what the message was for. Not the invitation. The little girl in the white dress.""Yes.""So we do the opposite."Rocco turned. "Signora?""We go calm. We go early. We eat whatever he serves and we say thank you." She laid her finger on the dining room on the plan. "He thinks he knows what buttons to press. Let him press them. Every one he reaches for tells us something he's afraid of.""And Claire?""Is twelve, and has survived
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Protective Fury The note said only this, in Valentina's looping hand:Sunrise was a courtesy. Ask your father who loves a Conti child more.Sandro read it eleven times in the car. By the twelfth he understood that he was no longer reading it. He was holding it so that his hands had something to do.Elena sat beside him with her fingers wrapped around his wrist. She had not let go since the cannery. Rocco drove through the grey Brooklyn morning in a silence so complete that Sandro could hear the tick of the indicator, and he could hear what he had stopped saying aloud, which was a single thought on a loop.Mine. Mine. Mine.Claire was taken. Elena had been taken twice. His city was burning, his friend had walked out of a cell, his father sat in his chair. And the only thing in the world he could still make true was this: the woman beside him was breathing."Rocco," he said. "Every Conti property. Every warehouse, club, shop, garage, church pew they have ever paid for. I want it burnin
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Dark Don Elena watched the man she loved turn into something she had no name for.It happened in the car. One moment he was beside her on the back seat of Rocco's replacement sedan, his hand heavy and warm on her knee, murmuring something about Claire. The next, the phone in his lap buzzed, and he read a message, and set the phone face-down, and the warmth went out of him as though someone had pulled a plug.He did not raise his voice. He did not clench his jaw. He simply stopped being a man who could be hurt."Rocco," he said. "Where is Greco?""In the garage in Red Hook, boss. Three of ours with him. He is awake.""Take me.""And the council?""The council voted at midnight without me." His voice was perfectly level. "Vittorio holds a paper that says he is Don. I hold a gun and four hundred men who do not care what the paper says. We will see which is heavier."It was a quarter past three. Outside the window, Brooklyn slid by, black and streaked with rain. On the radio, a newsreade
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The Glass TowerElena stood on the sidewalk across from Rossi Tower, clutching the black business card so tightly the edges bit into her palm. The skyscraper stabbed into the gray New York sky like a blade made of glass and arrogance. People in expensive coats hurried past her, heads down, voices c
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The Debt CollectorElena Brooks wiped the steam from the cracked bathroom mirror and stared at the stranger looking back at her. Dark circles. Tangled braids she hadn’t had time to retwist. Twenty-three years old and already exhausted by a life that refused to give her a break.“Ellie?” Claire’s sm
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The Point of No ReturnElena barely remembered how she got home. The city lights blurred past the taxi window as her mind replayed every second in Sandro’s office. His dark eyes tracing her body, the heat of his fingers brushing her neck, the way her traitorous body had responded with slick heat be
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The Rules of HellElena’s fingers tightened around the thick folder until the edges dug into her palms as she stormed out of the elevator and into the cold evening air outside Rossi Tower. The city noise hit her like a slap. Honking cars, rushing pedestrians, the distant wail of a siren, but none o
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