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for back stabbing and insubordination. Domani wasn’t in charge at the moment, but the hierarchy still existed.
    Fausto, Gianni, Domani, Nico…
    He had no aspirations to be the Boss while his father was still alive, but his last name still carried more weight than Paolo’s. Rocco should have known better.
    Not to mention what Caprice was going to do to him when she found out.
    “If she finds out,” Nico said out loud as he climbed into his sister’s Lexus and started it up.
    She was going to be happy to have her car back. She wasn’t going to be happy to find out that she had to drive herself to New Jersey. But he had work to do.
    Nico sped through Staten Island on a mission to pick his sister up from Gina’s, get her some breakfast, and get her on the road before his crew started looking for Rocco. If for some reason, shit got bloody, he damn sure didn’t want Caprice to see it.
    She’d seen her first and last dead body.
    Their father expected his only daughter to become CEO of C & N Enterprises. Domani was confident in his daughter’s ability to run a legit multi-million dollar business and wanted her off the streets as quickly as possible. Nico was determined to see that through.
    When he opened the door and walked into Gina’s penthouse in the Solaria building, she and Caprice were sitting at the breakfast nook drinking coffee and laughing like old friends.
    Gina Abruzzo was about twenty years older than Caprice and still just as gorgeous. Domani had found her in one of Paolo’s strip clubs when she was sixteen. Her dark hair and dark eyes reminded him of his kid sister. Angela Bonatelli had been killed in a car accident the year before and Domani hadn’t gotten over the loss. When he saw Gina, he saw red. He pulled the girl off the stage before she had the chance to make any money.
    From that moment on, Gina was no longer a teenage runaway turned stripper. Domani sent her to live with friends in California and finish high school. After she graduated, Domani sent her to Stanford University. He paid for her law degree from Columbia and put her up in the Solaria. He treated her like a sister. She was Nico’s Godmother and Domani’s best friend.
    Domani had saved her. She had a small law firm in the city and she kept her nose clean. Except when it came to the Bonatelli family. She was their fixer. She cleaned up the messes that were too dirty for Poleski to handle.
    “Hey Nico!” Gina said loudly. “I was just chatting with the little bad ass here. You’ve taught her well. She’s going to be running Atlantic City in no time.”
    “She’s not going up there for that,” Nico grumbled.
    “Hmph,” Gina scoffed. “Anybody who can take down the Cocaine King of Queensbridge with a single shot should be handed the key to the city. She did the world a favor. You should buy her a new bag or a car. You’d like a new Balenciaga bag, wouldn’t you, hun?”
    “Don’t encourage her,” Nico stated. “Let’s go, Caprice.”
    Caprice hugged Gina and they left with Gina’s offer to ‘call me when you need me’ echoing through the hall.
    “My baby!” Caprice exclaimed when she saw her Lexus parked at the curb. “Oh, she’s so pretty! I was sure that those BDM losers would have destroyed her. Thanks for taking care of her.”
    “Don’t worry about it.” Nico threw Caprice’s overnight case in the trunk and slammed it shut. He tossed her the keys and got in the passenger’s seat. He was trying not to show her how angry and frustrated he really was. Nico knew he wasn’t doing a very good job when they got in the car and Caprice asked,
    “What’s wrong?”
    “Nothing that I want to talk about. Change the subject.”
    Caprice shrugged and started the car. “I have some questions for you and you need to be completely honest with me.”
    “What?”
    “Why did it take Domani leaving the country for me to start meeting the people he’s closest to? Manny, Fausto, Gina…they’re my family too. I’ve