Chapter 70 Organized Crime: Money and Power

Aryana Joy M. Santini POV

A tear slipped down my check. “Doesn’t this mean that I’m part of the Bernardino family?”

Montero squeezed my hand once more before pulling his back. “Yes, but a far superior branch of it.”

“And that’s not what he meant,” Rocky said, jerking his head at Craig. “By family, he meant the entire organization.”

“Oh, is that all?” I gave a watery little laugh.

“It is daunting. But the next step is to pick up the documentation of the test and take it to Don Gregorio,” Montero said.

“We will,” Rocky said.

As I looked from one man to another, I couldn’t hold back the tears.

“What is it?” Rocky Ace asked gently.

“I can’t believe my mom kept this from me.”

“If you ask me, she wanted to protect you,” Rocky said. “That name would have been a burden. Your mom probably wanted you to have a normal life. To be an average nobody. Bernardino’s life ain’t what you’d call normal.”

“Rocky’s downplaying it,” Craig commented. “You don’t know what you’d be in for, if your name was ‘B