THE DON'S WIFE LEFT HIM FOR HIS RIVAL
"What's her endgame? She can't take over two empires by herself."
"She doesn't need to," said Dante, and there was a note of pain in his voice that I knew wasn't meant to be heard. "She needs them to destroy each other. If the Falcones and Romanos go to war one more time, she picks up whatever's left. She's been positioning for that since before our wedding."
Since before our wedding.
There was silence, and everyone was doing the math, the dinner, the humiliation, the year of cold distance, all of it engineered to make us do exactly this, the families at odds while she stood as a silent judge.