A month later, Soren had been completely cast out of the Greco family, and within days, several of his old enemies found him and broke both of his legs.Before long, he lost his mind entirely and spent his days begging in dark, damp street corners while muttering the same sentence over and over again.“C, I’m going to kill you...”As for the Greco family, Vincent knew exactly how to handle the aftermath.He not only returned every piece of territory and every shipping route they had taken, but also handed over thirty percent of the revenue from their docks as compensation.In the end, I agreed to renew our arrangement for another three years, although this time, I alone decided the rules and the price.The gifts sent by the other seven families as apologies piled up outside the gates of the estate.I refused to meet any of them, so they could only leave their gifts behind and depart nervously.My mother returned from Florence overnight and held me in her arms as she cried over everythi
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