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right now.”
    “ Rafael,
I’m not dictating anything,” Susanna said, looking right
into her son’s eyes. She turned to look at her husband, Paolo.
“Paolo, will you tell him I am not dictating.”
    “ Yes,
son. Your mother and I just want what is best for you,” Paolo
said and Rafael forced out a laugh. He found it quite strange that
his father would choose to second his wife especially after he had
partied like Tony Stark for the better part of his thirties and
forties.
    “ Papa,
like I said to mama. I am old enough. I know what I am doing.”
    “ But
all you seem to be doing is blowing your money,” Paolo pointed
out.
    “ And
making headlines of every tabloid known to man.” Susanna looked
at her iPad that had been resting on the table next to her plate.
“And I mean every tabloid. American and European...Us Weekly,
OK!”
    “ They
are just tabloids, Mama,” Rafael said dismissively.
    Susanna shook her
head.
    “ If
it was just the tabloids printing things about my son, I would be
alright but now even the serious publications have articles about
you. The Washington Post, The Herald...”
    “ What
your mother is trying to say Rafael is that we have been genuinely
concerned about you and the direction you have been taking lately,”
Paolo started, cutting Susanna short.
    “ The
direction I have been taking?” Rafael asked. He was not sure
whether the tone in his voice was contempt or surprise. There was no
telling what it really was. All he knew was that he just wanted to
get up and walk away. “And what is this ‘direction’
you are referring to Papa?”
    “ Son,
we know you are old enough to make your own decisions but all this
partying you are doing...it is not good for anyone and given who you
are, there are a number of opportunists out there looking to make a
quick buck.”
    Rafael put his fork
down and sighed.
    “ What
do you mean, exactly?” he asked. “When you say given who
I am? What do you mean?”
    “ You
are the Imperioli heir, everyone knows that. And when you are out
there losing yourself...it would not be hard for some woman to trap
you and...”
    Rafael forced out a
laugh and shook his head.
    “ Are
you seriously giving me the sex talk? At thirty years old?” he
asked.
    “ I
always see you with these girls, models and what not...protecting my
son is something that comes naturally,” Susanna said.
    Paolo took a long
deep breath.
    “ Listen,
son. Why don’t you just join your brother in the family
business and...”
    Rafael
shook his head before Paolo could finish. They had been down this
road before. One too many times actually and he was not about to give
in to the pressure. Not this time. He knew exactly what his parents
had in mind. Exactly what they had in mind. Joining the family
business meant bending to their rules. Not having any free will to do
as he would have wanted. It was some kind of enslavement as far as he
was concerned.
    “ I
don’t need the Imperioli business,” he said.
    “ I
know you don’t Rafael but it is your legacy. It is what we have
built for you and we will be damned if we let you have some floozy
get everything we have worked so hard for,” Susanna said.
    “ So,
what? You are going to get me some girl from a respectable family to
marry?” he asked in a cynical voice.
    His
parents were not past doing something as ridiculous as that. They had
tried it before, subtly setting him up with what they thought were
women of stature. And they were always women Rafael couldn’t
stand. Women who were always trying too much to be what they really
weren’t. Women who only looked to marry rich so that they could
sip on wine and gossip when they were not traveling the world on
their husband's dime.
    “ Honestly,
Rafael...it’s not like you have shown us that you have the best
choices when it comes to the women you date.” Susanna
interlaced her fingers together and rested her elbows on the table.
“I think it would be wise for you to settle down. Get