CHAPTER THREEOkay so let me tell you about last night's dinner because I skipped past it and it deserves its own paragraph.Lorenzo's mother, Signora Adriana De Luca looked at me across the dinner table like I had personally offended three generations of her family. Which technically I had, I suppose, since I'm the accountant who accidentally exposed their global mafia network to a news reporter. "So you are the girl," she said "Yes ma'am, I'm Sofia.""I know who you are." She picked up her wine glass. "You are the woman who has ruined my son's carefully built life with your nosiness."I opened my mouth."And before you say anything," she continued, "understand that I have spent thirty years building this family's reputation in New York. Thirty years before you were even born and you have managed to threaten it in one evening."I tried to be respectful and innocent"You're absolutely right, Signora De Luca," I said, with the most sincere expression I have ever produced in my life.
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