{FRANCESCO}
Leaving New York again was against everything I had planned those weeks ago. Chasing after a bastard with a tattoo of a snake had taken away the time I needed to prepare Stephanie for what was about to happen. I knew she could talk back if she had to, but that wouldn't be enough to face those who had been schooled to be first class assholes all their entire life.
I might have played it all wrong. Certainly I needed her unconditional trust and devotion but all those treats would have been useless if she got herself killed.
A part of me hoped and prayed that this wedding would go smoothly but nothing in my life ever went smoothly. It was wiser to prepare for the worst.
As some of my men had worked to secure the estate, Julio and I had gone after the tattooed bastard responsible for killing the kid.
Julio had received another hint and he went to Pittsburgh to check if it would lead us anywhere.
