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Elio sighs. “He doesn’t know. But his cousin, Nico? Swears it was his uncle.”
“Dino’s uncle, or Nico’s?”
“Nico’s.”
The implication rings through me like a bullet.
“No,” I whisper.
Dino’s father should be dead. End of story. There’s no way that he’s alive; not after my father and all of his rivals came for him.
“He’s dead.”
“Nico’s father is dead. The man he saw looked just like him. An identical twin,” Elio mutters.
“That can’t possibly be.”
“Check your sources. If he comes for Dino…”
“He wont. The Drakos family has fully embraced Dino and Marisol,” I say quickly. It helps that Marisol brought a vastcriminal empire spanning the entirety of South America to the marriage, elevating the previously defunct Drakos family name to one that’s whispered with real fear now.
“Maybe,” Elio says slowly. “But then, what else would he want?”
My mind churns.
“Revenge?”
“That’s what I thought,” Elio repeats grimly. “I’ve put everyone in Italy on high alert, and sent additional support to Greece.”
“They can look after themselves,” I mutter. The ransacked lake house, which is attached only to me, is weighing heavily on my mind.
Moretti, though, wanted to kidnap the girls.
And then the attack on Liam…
Could this be multiple different people?
“Marco,” Elio barks.
“What?”
“Tell me what you’re thinking.”
I hesitate.
It’s not that I don’t want to tell Elio what’s going on. I could need his help, and knowing that he’s one of the closest people I have to handle this makes me want to.
But I…
“I know, you don’t want to. I know. But what trouble are you in?”
I open the bathroom door and look at Roisin. “It’s not me,” I say, closing the door.
Elio sucks in a breath.
“I can’t tell you everything. But I think… I think that I need to protect someone. And I think that she might be in danger because of me.”
The puzzle pieces are clicking into place. When I was in witness protection, I left, several times, to confirm that Dino was a son of the Drakos family. I gave him the information, and I connected him to his cousin, Nico, in order to help him and Marisol.