Gael's entire day flashed in his mind. His morning consisted of his usual routine for weeks—with Angela in his bed, and their morning schedule: coffee, workout, sex, shower.
Since his father's phone call, everything seemed to go downhill from there. He knew there was something off when his father refused to tell him before meeting the Morellis. In their world, the Don's word was the law.
There was this rule: if you don't follow the Don's orders, then you should face death.
Gael's great grandfather, Domenico De Luca, was ruthless. He came to New York together with the other Italians more than a century ago because of poverty in Italy—around the early 1900s. He was only nine years old then—poor, orphaned, and had no siblings. When he came to the U.S, he did all sorts of jobs to get by. But he was smart, and with his many skills, he became infamous around the streets of Brooklyn in his late teenage years. When he got older, everybody who was desperate wanted to work for him.
