CHAPTER 10: EMMA

I’ve been in this house for a week without leaving. I stare at my father’s diary, trying to decide what to do with the new information I’ve just found.

I just read a significant entry, my father mentioned my uncle and a fallout regarding a ‘deal’ made earlier.

It can’t be nothing, this deal is so crucial that it leads to my father falling out with his brother, and luckily for me, his name was revealed.

Matteo Conti, my uncle. He shouldn’t be so hard to find right? How many Matteo Contis could there be in this city?

I pace back and forth in my room, how do I find him?

Wait, social media. Yes, yes, yes.

I plop on my bed and pull out my laptop, Facebook.

The social media app for their generation.

I search ‘Matteo Conti’, many names pop up. Well, fuck.

I spend the next minutes looking at their profiles, one was a high school kid, one a gay rights activist, another an 80 year old man with only a picture of his wife and dog posted, I found that cute. One was a young professor, another seeme