Page 11 of Family Secrets

Removing his feet from the desk, “I’m sure Nona would love to join us.”

“This isn’t a request, Giovanni. Cross me on this and see what happens. You aren’t wearing my ring yet.”

Gino held his tongue as his gaze dropped to the ostentatious chunk of gold wrapped around his father’s index finger. Of all the things he couldn’t wait to change, when his time to take the reins came, the minute his father handed him that fucking ring he’d toss it into the Hudson River.

Standing, Gino gave his father a two-finger salute, his phone vibrating in his jacket pocket. Sliding his sunglasses on his face, he bid farewell to the men standing sentry as he climbed back into his car. Pressing a button on his steering wheel to answer the call, “What do you have for me?”

“Sorry to disturb you, Gino. I thought you should know someone tried to tamper with the security cameras at the warehouse.”

Whipping his car into traffic, “Tamper how?”

“They tried to erase it.”

“Do you know who?”

“Of course I do. Before you lose your shit, it isn’t who you’re thinking.”

Gino switched lanes to take him to the George Washington Bridge, shifting his car into third and punching the accelerator, cutting into traffic.

“I’ll be there in ten, old man.”

“Not with the traffic you’re about to encounter.”

“Wanna make a bet?”

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