Alessandro arrived, and he looked like he had aged quite a bit. Stopping in front of the table with food on it, he looked at his buddies. He had been wondering what this was about, but now it seemed like all they were here for was to eat.He sighed as he sat down. As the two looked at him and he said, “You called me out here to eat?”Dante nodded his head, “The two of you have been working hard, so I thought I’d treat you to lunch.”Alessandro looked at the burger that was brought over and the drink. He nodded his head and placed a fry in his mouth, then forced a smile, “If you really want to treat me to something, I want to go back to working for you.”Dante's, and Raffael’s eyes met, wondering why he would say that. Raffael was the one who snapped out of his thoughts and asked, “Why, what’s going on?”Picking up his drink, he looked at his friend and said, “Why don’t you try working with Daphnee for a week? She’s worse than her husband.”Dante raised a brow. “What is she doing that

A/N: I messed up around chapter 50. So the twins are 3 in age and Dante and Daphnee have known each other for 7 years. Dante meets the children a few months before their 4th birthday. So Raffael has been investigating Daphnee for almost 3 years after seeing her at the hospital’s back entrance. (I’ll fix this on a later date)—Dante snapped back to earth as he heard a little voice speaking to him. He looked to his left, where Giovanni was standing beside him.“Uh, what did you say?” Dante asked him.Giovanni stared at him for a moment, then repeated, “Open, please.”Dante looked at the packet of chips, then took it. Handing it back to him, he watched as Giovanni went back to his mother and plopped down in between her legs.Daphnee kissed him on the cheek, then went back to eating the chicken salad she bought.Feeling a stare on her, she turned to Dante and asked, “Aren’t you going to have anything?”“I ate before coming here,” he answered.“Daddy, you not hungry?” She asked as she han

An hour before Daphnee woke up…“Where’s mommy?” Giovanni asked.Dante was sitting on the living room floor with the children, watching them play with Aurora’s toys.She was showing her brother all the toys she had here and speaking to him with excitement.Giovanni didn’t seem phased because he didn’t like none of the pink stuffed toys and doll houses along with all the babies and dolls.“Mommy’s sleeping,” he said.Giovanni stared at Dante, unsure. He understood he had a ‘daddy’ but now to see him and be with him for so long, he didn’t know what to do or how to act, especially with his mother not being around.“Can I go home now? I’m tired,” he said.Aurora looked at her brother, then at their father and found it confusing. Their mother would never leave Giovanni here.She got up and went to Dante, who smiled at her, “Daddy, are you and mommy fighting again?”“Fighting? No baby, we’re not,” he said.She looked at her brother, then looked in the room for Alessandro or Gabriele, but th

Madam Bardi was in her private car as she stared out of the window at the passing scenery. “I am the eldest living representative of the Bardi Mafia and I’ve never been disrespected like this. What do you suggest I do?” She asked her driver, who was also her secretary and right-hand man.He looked into the rear-view mirror at her and saw that she wasn’t looking at him. Thinking about her question, he thought of Daphnee and all that she had done and how she came to be part of the mafia. He didn’t understand her, so he said, “I am certain madam has thought of how to deal with Donna.”“Correct. She is the Donna,” she said.*They arrived at Dante’s home, and he was waiting outside for her. He gave his mother a hug, asking, “Are you well?”Madam Bardi smiled at him, “Am I well? I am doing well. What about you? You look terrible.”“I didn’t sleep last night,” he said.She nodded her head. She received the report of everything from Raffael’s investigation, Alessandro’s betrayal. The dead b

Climbing out of the car with Giovanni in his arms, Dante looked at him and asked, “Are you excited about today?”Giovanni looked around them and saw the carnival ahead. He was curious as to what was up ahead and nodded his head. “What’s that?”“The carnival, we’re going to spend the day here. Just you and me,” Dante answered.He looked at the guards, saying, “Keep a lookout. I don’t want anything going wrong today.”They bowed to him.He walked off and bought tickets. Looking around, he felt confused. Growing up, he knew another side of life and that was spending money on things you didn’t need and his parents would buy him whatever he wanted. Now he wanted to spend time with his kid, but he didn’t know where to start.Giovanni looked at his confused expression and asked, “What is it?”Dante looked at him, saying, “I don’t know. Where do you want to go?”Giovanni saw the horses in the distance and pointed to the horse carousel. “There. The white one.”He put Giovanni down, who was wig