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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER EIGHTY SEVEN
"SOMETIMES THE BRAVEST THING YOU CAN DO IS FINALLY SAY THE THING YOU HAVE BEEN SWALLOWING FOR YEARS."SOFIA"No."I look at him."And that," he adds, in a voice that has gone slightly cooler, "is none of your business."Something happens in my chest when he says that.Not hurt exactly. Not surprise either because I think I already knew. But something that starts quiet and builds quickly into something much louder — a kind of clarity that comes when you have been patient for a very long time and have finally, completely, run out of patience entirely.I laugh.Not a polite laugh. Not the careful social laugh I have been producing on demand for seven years in rooms full of people who needed to see a composed and grateful Sofia Romano Valentino. A real one. Short and incredulous and pulled right out of the middle of me.Marco looks slightly startled.Good. He should be."Okay," I say. "So let me make sure I understand this correctly.""Sofia—""No." I hold up one hand and he stops. I am n
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER EIGHTY SIX
“THE GREATEST LUXURY A MAN COULD HAVE IS A BROTHER.”DANTEI look between them."Who is Vivian?" I ask."Nobody," Nico says."She is absolutely not nobody," Luca says simultaneously, with great enthusiasm. "She is a very beautiful, very interesting woman that Nico has been thinking about non-stop since we saw her at that bar three weeks ago. He thinks about her constantly. I know because I share a work space with him and he has been distracted and weird and—""I have not been distracted.""You spelled your own name wrong on a document last week.""That was a typo.""Nico. You have been spelling your name for thirty one years."I look at Nico.Nico, who is the most composed human being I have ever met in my life. Who has sat in rooms with people pointing guns at him and maintained complete emotional neutrality. Who approaches every situation — every single one, without exception — with the calm calculation of a computer running numbers.Nico, who is looking at his twin right now with a
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER EIGHT FIVE
"THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE IS NEVER JUST MILES."DANTE"Sofia.""Dante." Her voice sounds careful. Slightly breathless in a way that I notice immediately."You called earlier," I say. "The call cut off. Is everything okay?"A pause that is just slightly too long."Yes," she says. "Everything is fine. I just — I wanted to check that you got off okay. That you were on your way."I look at the ceiling."That's why you called.""Yes.""You're sure."Another pause. Smaller this time. "I'm sure."I don't push it.I want to. Every instinct I have is telling me that something is sitting just behind the careful steadiness of her voice — something she is holding away from the edges of the conversation so it doesn't fall in. I know her voice too well. I have memorized her voice over more years and through more circumstances than any person should have to and I know when it is doing something it is not letting on about.But I am on a jet and she is in that house and this is not the conversa
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER EIGHTY FOUR
"THE CAGE DOESN'T ALWAYS HAVE BARS. SOMETIMES IT JUST LOOKS LIKE A MARRIAGE."SOFIAI need to tell him.I need to tell him right now before he gets on that plane and disappears to the other side of the world and I am left here again with something enormous and no way to reach him.I am not doing this again.I am not carrying this alone again.I go downstairs quickly, my phone already in my hand, already pulling up his name. My heart is going faster than normal and my hands are not entirely steady but I am moving and that feels better than sitting still with this.I press call as I reach the bottom of the stairs.It rings.Once.Twice.Three times.My stomach is tight. I stand in the hallway and listen to it ring and count the rings and tell myself he will pick up, he has to pick up, he cannot be on the plane already it has not been long enough—The ringing stops.A click."Sofia—"His voice. Just those two syllables and I feel my whole body exhale with relief."Dante," I say quickly,
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER EIGHTY THREE
“ I WILL BE WITH YOU FROM DUSK TILL DAWN.”SOFIA.He picks up his bag from the hallway where he left it and he walks to the front door and Nico and Luca fall into place on either side of him and then the door opens and then they are gone and the house settles into a quiet that feels completely different from the quiet it was before.Isabella appears at my side.She has been so quiet for the past few minutes that I almost forgot she was still in the kitchen. She comes and stands beside me and we both look at the closed front door together in silence.Then she looks up at me."Mama," she says slowly, working through something in her head. "What did Uncle Dante mean when he said he would take me with him?"I look down at her.Her eyes are very direct. Very serious. She is six years old and she heard what she heard and she is not going to be redirected with a simple answer.I open my mouth.Close it.The truth is too big for this moment. Too complicated and too enormous and she is six yea
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER EIGHTY TWO
"SOME GOODBYES CARRY THE WEIGHT OF EVERYTHING THAT WAS NEVER SAID."SOFIAI am in the kitchen when I hear Dante come downstairs.Not just Dante. Nico and Luca too. Their voices are low in the hallway, the particular energy of men who are preparing to go somewhere and have already switched into that focused operational mode that means the decision is made and everything now is just logistics.My stomach drops before I even know why.Marco comes in from the sitting room and we look at each other briefly and then Dante comes through the kitchen doorway and the way he is dressed tells me everything before he opens his mouth. Not the casual clothes he wears around the house. Not the expensive but relaxed way he dresses when he is just present. This is deliberate. Suit jacket. Controlled. The way Dante dresses when he is walking into something that requires the full version of himself.He looks at Marco first."I'm going to New York," he says. "And then Colombia. The succession vote is clos
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER EIGHT
FORBIDDEN THINGS HAVE A SECRET CHARM. DANTEThe fight felt good.No, better than good. It felt right. Natural. Like slipping into a second skin that fits perfectly.I'm standing in the small room they use as a makeshift locker area, wrapping my knuckles with fresh bandages. My hands are already st
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER TWENTY
“DON’T RUN, YOU WILL ONLY DIE TIRED.”DANTE.He pulls out his phone, shows me a series of messages. "The Bratva made their move. Hit three of our shipments in the last forty-eight hours. Killed fifteen of our guys. Took one of our warehouses—the one with the European shipment."My blood, which was
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
“EVERY GIRL IS A DOLL. EITHER BARBIE OR ANABELLE.”SOFIA.Luca. It's Luca, grinning at me like he didn't just scare ten years off my life."What are you doing?" I press my hand to my chest, trying to calm my racing heart."I'm going with you." He settles into the seat like he belongs there, stretch
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
“IF YOU FALL I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE”__FLOOR.DANTE.Luca arrives like a hurricane in human form. I released a pre–stressed sigh, because I know just hou much chaos he is about to bring."Dante! Where the hell are you, man? This place is huge. What, Marco needs a castle to compensate for something?"
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