Anthony"Anthony, are you listening to me?"The answer is no.It's pretty much always no.My father is a man of many words, most of which are threats and demands.Growing up with a strict father is one thing, but mine is the Don of the Italian Mafia within Chicago.What he says goes, and there's never any discussion.I never want to be within this life, but when you are the firstborn child and a son, you have no say.I'm set to take over a criminal empire that I don't even want, and the only way out would be death.I know that from a very young age.I know that if I reject this life, my own father will be forced to give the order to kill me, assuming he doesn't do it himself.There's not much love between us.I'm not even certain he can feel that emotion.If you ask my mother, she would tell you that, of course, he loves her, loves us, but I know that's a lie.After she passed away, killed actually, my father didn't even wait until the funeral before he was screwing some blonde bimbo
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