Fated Dynasties
"What's happened."
Dante Rossi looks at me with the expression of a man who has delivered bad news before and has not become accustomed to it, which is the only kind of man I would trust to deliver it.
"There was an accident on the Tangenziale," he says. "A serious one. The car is registered to this address."
The October light.
The note on the pillow.
Back before noon.
Don't go anywhere without me.
"Is she okay" The words are not cooperating. I am finding that the words are not cooperating with me, that the sentence I need to finish is one I cannot finish because finishing it makes it a question that has an answer and I am not ready for the answer, I am not—