“I know we can. All it takes is the same strength I saw back in that house. The same strength that got you out of that basement and enabled you to put a gun to your uncle’s head with a direct order to kill him if I asked it of you. Would you have done it?”
“Done what?”
“Killed him if I asked.”
She swallowed hard. “I actually think I would have.”
He squeezed my hand. “Then, take your rightful place as the head of your family. Show your uncle and the rest of them how strong you really are. Show them that, no matter what they take from you, fate will always find a way to intervene.”
It was a terrifyingly, thrilling idea. “If we do this, that means your family will leave you alone, too. They’ll never be able to go head to head with both of us.”
“That’s what I’m counting on.”
I leaned toward him. “If I do this, you owe me an explanation for everything. What's going on, what Giovanni did, what your father is wrapped up in. We need to sit down and have an explicit conversation with one another about everything. Front to back for business reasons.”
“And you’ll get that conversation once you agree to the plan.”
How could I resist? “You and me?”
“The both of us.”
“Together?”
He kissed the back of my hand. “Through the whole of it.”
I drew in a deep breath. “Then, I accept.”
He bit his lip and smiled. “There was no offer to accept, Bonnie. Only a moment for you to take for yourself and realize exactly what you were born to do.”
I smiled. “I’m going to run the Moretti family.”
“Yes, you are.”
“And I’m going to make sure this family stands by a moral code they should’ve stood by when my uncle was plotting my father’s demise.”
He kissed my forehead. “There’s my good girl.”
I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.
As Israel cradled me in his arm, I thought about the future. About what it would mean on the streets for me to step up and assume the head position of the family. What would they think? What would they do? Would it open us all up for attack? Or would people gun for us even harder?
“Settle that mind, for now, beautiful. One step at a time,” Israel whispered.
I smiled. “You always can read me like a book.”
“And that will never change, beautiful.”
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