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Chapter 4

Author: The Red
On the seventh day after my death, my father came.

He came with my two older brothers and twelve Soldati, parking their cars directly in front of the main gate of the Corleone family’s mansion.

My father was dressed in a black suit, his gray hair combed neatly, but the bloodshot veins in his eyes betrayed him.

I looked at my family, feeling sorry for them but not knowing how to comfort them.

“Where is my daughter?”

Ron met him in the living room. Lisa stood behind him, like a frightened bunny.

“I’m looking for her,” Ron said.

“You’ve been looking for seven days.” My eldest brother, Arthur Marino, scoffed. “Is the Corleone family’s intelligence network really that incompetent?”

“If she doesn’t want to be found…”

“My daughter would never hide,” my father cut him off, his voice deep. “From the day Wendy was born, she had never run away from anything. If she were still alive, she would have contacted us.”

“Maybe she is afraid to do that,” Ron said, "since she left Lisa behind."

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