The Don's Ruthless Empire
Rosa arrived before we had finished, her face pale, her hands twisting the edge of her shawl the way they always did when fear outran her composure.
"Nico left an hour ago," she said, her voice trembling. "He would not tell me where. He only said he had to see her again before Dario knew we were watching."
"Her," I repeated slowly.
"The consortium woman," Rosa said, and her voice cracked slightly on the word. "Matteo, he is twenty three years old and he thinks he is invincible, exactly the way his father did, and we both know how that story ended."
"Nico is not his father," I said, gentler than I felt entitled to be given how frightened she looked.