41 An Unknown Attack

Luca.

I busied my father's call and called back against my better judgement. He answered on the first ring, and I cringed when I heard his voice. All I could think of was my mother's pain.

"Luca, how are you?" He asked me.

"Get straight to the point; I do not have all day," I told him, and he was silent.

"I know you are mad about what happened with your mother, but I couldn't take it anymore. She was a ..." He said, and I cut him short.

"Don't pin your infidelity and disloyalty on my mother. Did your bitch not tell you we spoke? She told me everything. She told me about your sons, who are older than I am, by the way. The same people you ruined our family's business for, and now that I have built back our financial reputation, you are trying to ruin me for their sake. If you cared so much, you should have handed it to them, not me. I would have been better off, Roberto would have been alive now, but I do not expect you to care about my mother or her children." I said, and he wa