C21 Chapter Twenty One

“Is that .......blood on your hands.” My father stands in the foyer, Mother beside him. He doesn’t sound angry, just chiding. “Everyone saw.”

“I wanted everyone to see.” Massimo’s voice is cold, so much colder than it has been toward me over the past day. “It’s important that they know my family and I are not to be trifled with, Leonard.”

My father shakes his head. “They saw a cynical madman