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Keep her and my life is over. My father would have me killed by someone hiding in the dark. I wouldn't know when, I wouldn't see it coming . . . And he wouldn't take credit for it.

I'd end up on the front page as the poster child for other parents trying to keep their kids in check. A poor mishap that had it coming from a life of crime and violence.

I could see it now:'The right deal gone wrong. Son of prominent figure Bane Pisani found floating in the Hudson.'

Stretching her arm out, Ivy brushed my forearm. “Dante, what are we going to do?”

I knew what I had to do.

Ivy wouldn't like my decision, she'd hate me for what I was about to do.

But I don't have a choice.