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Forty-One: Cesare Luna
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Underground Hearts Club Forty-two: Emmilia Vitore
Forty-two:Emmilia VitoreBianca stayed the night. “I searched the entire house,” Bianca told me.“There’s no sign of her?” I said.She shook her head. “Unless he’s keeping her somewhere else. But I’ve talked with the security guards and they don’t know anything about a child being kept on the property.”I thought about what Donatello said about my mother. “What about another woman?”Bianca shook her head. “Unless he’s got her some other place that isn’t the house.”I frowned. “I don’t know where he would keep two different people.”She shrugged. “I’ve had my security guard looking into your daughter. You met Great Aunt Sophia?”I nodded. “Yeah, I did. She said that she would help me. I don’t know how. She looks like she’s got one foot in the grave.”Bianca smiled. “Never underestimate Great Aunt Sophia. She can fix everything.”“Donatello sent her here to talk to me about ‘my first time’. I don’t understand why. He knows that I have a daughter. I’m not a virgin.”The two of us were s
Underground Hearts Club Forty-three: Cesare Luna
Forty-three:Cesare Luna“A body found in the Luna family restaurant was identified as Octavious Luna. The Luna family has had problems with the law before, as his brother was arrested previously for issues with taxes.”“Fuck!” Marco pulled over to the side of the road.“What’s going on?” I asked.“That’s your father,” he said, “the man that was killed.”I looked at the radio, then back at Marco. I should have felt something. But I was still struggling to remember my past. I remembered the important things. I knew that Emmilia Vitore was my wife. I knew that I had a daughter with her. That my brother was obsessed with her and working with her uncle, who was also obsessed with her and had the delusion that Emmilia was his daughter. I should have felt sad about the man that was my father being dead. But when Marco said the words, I felt nothing. “Oh,” was all I could say.Marco looked at me. “Well, that’s an appropriate reaction. But you know this is going to derail any plans for you ha
Underground Hearts Club Forty-four: Emmilia Vitore
Forty-four:Emmilia VitoreGalileo took me to see my daughter. She was in the living room, talking happily with Donatello. Seeing her so close to the man that had brought so much misery to my family made me sick. She was too young to know anything was wrong about it and I didn’t want to scare her.“Tori?” I called out, hesitant. She only knew me vaguely. She was aware I was her birth mother, but she had spent most of her time with another family. I didn’t even know if she would want to be with me permanently. That had always been the plan but I had always had the idea that I would have her back, but if she didn’t want to come, I would let her stay with the family that had raised her.“Mommy!” she ran towards me. “Mommy, Daddy found me! He says that we’re going to be a family!”I forced a smile on my face. “Yes honey, we are going to be a family.” I didn’t want her to know how terrified she should actually be. The men around here were so dangerous that she shouldn’t even be in the same
Underground Hearts Club Forty-five: Cesare Luna
Forty-five:Cesare Luna“Why are we doing this again?” Marco must have thought that I was crazy. We were standing on the side of the road, about a mile from where I thought my family safe house was. A memory had come to me while we were driving there. It was Luna tradition that we had to fire a gun before we arrived at the safehouse. It was a way to let people know that we weren’t a threat.“Because, Luna tradition dictates it.”“You forgot how to use a fork at breakfast this morning,” Marco said, “but you can remember this?”“I have a concussion from being almost killed,” I reminded him, “I still remember the important things. I can’t remember the pin number to my credit card, but I---for instance----remembered that I’m not married to Emmilia.”Marco frowned at me. “What?”I looked at the side of the road that led up to the big, modern style mansion that was up on the hill, guarded by a gate. “I was going to marry Emmilia. We weren’t able to get married before my brother went psycho
Underground Hearts Club Forty-six: Emmilia Vitore
Forty-six:Emmilia Vitore I wasn’t used to being helpless. Normally, I had a plan. Sometimes, the plan went awry. But normally, there was at least some semblance of a plan. In this case, once Tori was with me, I found myself going into a kind of out of body state. Bianca helped me get dressed and ready but I didn’t remember it. I went from being in the room Donatello had forced me to be in, to being out in the back yard with people that were supposed to be my family. It really seemed like it was a lot of Donatello’s business associates and their wives with maybe a few of their kids sprinkled in. Everyone kept on coming up to me and telling me congratulations as I sat at a table with Galileo. Galileo kept on placing his hand on my shoulder, and another on my thigh. “You should smile,” he whispered to me, “this is supposed to be the happiest night of your life.” “It’s not even the wedding,” I hissed, through gritted teeth, “it’s the rehear
Underground Hearts Club Forty-seven: Cesare Luna
Forty-seven:Cesare Luna “How did he seem?” I asked my sister after she had made the call. “Like most Luna men,” Laura said, “he behaved like a cold asshole.” Vera, my mother, glared at her. “Laura, that’s a little too harsh. We’ve all lost your father and---” Laura glared back at our mother. “Mom, dad’s dead. You don’t have to defend him anymore. You certainly don’t have to defend Galileo. I’m pretty sure that he’s the reason why we’re all in this mess to begin with. I think he made some kind of twisted deal so that he could marry Emmilia instead of Cesare and now he’s completely lost his marbles. For all we know, he’s the one that killed dad.” Vera laughed. “Oh please, Galileo isn’t cruel enough to kill your father. All he wanted to do was to be a chef but his stupid feud with his brother wouldn’t let him. He became obsessed with Emmilia because he’s a petulant child who isn’t used to not getting what he wants because we ga
Underground Hearts Club Forty-eight: Emmilia Vitore
Forty-eight:Emmilia Vitore I grabbed Tori and I took her to my room. Bianca noticed, and started to follow me, but she was stopped by one of the guards. “Mama?” Tori said. “Is everything okay, Mama?” I looked down at my daughter and I had to keep my face calm. I didn’t think Galileo would punish me for mourning his brother, since he was too, but I had no doubt that Donatello would. I looked down at Tori. “We’re going home, baby,” I said, “that’s why I look sad. I never thought that I would get to take you back to Boston with me.” Tori’s eyes widened. “We’re really going home?” I nodded. “Yes.” “But I thought we had to stay here?” she asked. “I thought you had to get married to new Daddy and that we had to stay in Italy.” “There’s been a change in plans. Don’t worry about it too much. But we’re all going to leave together tomorrow, alright?” Tori nodded. “Alright, Mommy. But promise me that you aren’t
Underground Hearts Club Forty-nine: Cesare Luna
Forty-nine:Cesare Luna To get someone that was a fixer out of hiding was not an easy thing to do. Titus Vitore showed up when he wanted to, where he wanted to, and half of the time you never knew if he was alive or dead. Given how I had ended up nearly beaten to death after our last meeting, I was surprised that he wasn’t dead. But my mother, Vera Luna, had dealt with men like my father all her life. Which meant she knew how to find people to clean up messes. People like Titus. So, we put the word out. And we waited. I didn’t like the idea of waiting. It meant that time would pass. I had no idea where Emmilia was. I didn’t know what my brother was doing with her. And I had no idea if my daughter was okay. Titus was the key to helping us find that out. Laura had made a call to Galileo. She knew that he would answer her calls still. She told him that father was dead and that I was too. It was all a ploy to try to get him to come back to Boston. Hopef
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