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My mother had arranged it without saying so. My father was somewhere else in the house. Elena was somewhere else in the house. The front room had three chairs and three people and a door that was closed and outside Caruso's men were two streets away and none of that was addressed because none of it was the point of this room right now. Luca stood because he hadn't been invited to sit. That was just how he was. He stood in the middle of the room with his jacket on and his hands at his sides and he looked at my mother in her chair and at me on the couch and at the room in general with the specific quality of a man clocking exits and finding them all accounted for. My mother said, "Sit down." He sat. I watched him register the fact that he'd just done what she said without thinking about it and filing it away without commenting on it. My mother looked at him for a moment. The way she looked at things she'd been thinking about for a long time. Then she started talking. She didn't