Chapter 19 - A dull evening

Alessandro

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Domenico Costello had three sons—Luciano, Mario, and Vito.

In our world, the family order means everything. Luciano, being the eldest, naturally became the Don, taking the weight of the family legacy on his shoulders. Mario, his second-in-command, the Underboss, was his trusted shadow. My father, Vito? He was the muscle. The enforcer. The one sent when words failed and blood needed spilling. He thrived in that chaos.

Luciano had a son, Nikolai, to carry on his name. Mario had Marco, the heir to his empire. Then there was my father, Vito. His first child was Bianca, from his marriage to his perfect, first wife.

Bianca Costello was everything the family could’ve asked for in a daughter—poised, elegant, and everyone's favorite girl.

But Vito wasn’t the faithful kind like his brothers. He never was.

He cheated on Bianca’s mother with my mother—his mistress at the time. And when she got pregnant with me, he did the unthinkable in the history of the Costello fa