The Don's Ruthless Empire
"But somehow, it is."
He wrapped his arm carefully around me, and for a long moment neither of us spoke, watching the harbor slowly wake beneath a sky finally clearing of the smoke that had haunted our morning. A fishing boat cut a slow, lazy path across the water in the distance, its engine a faint, steady hum, so ordinary against everything we had survived that it almost felt like a mockery. "Salvatore's confession changes things between us," I finally said. "Not just for you and him. For everything we believed about how this war actually began."