THE LITTLE GIRL ASKED TO SIT WITH A STRANGER—BUT HER MOTHER NEVER EXPECTED THE MAFIA BOSS TO RECOGNIZE HER FACE

more men from these pews than he had married. He did not ask questions.

Damen arrived ten minutes early and sat in the fifth row from the altar.

The same row where his father had once brokered a truce that lasted four years and ended with three funerals.

Eli and Theo waited in the vestibule.

Two of Callaway’s men stood across from them.

No one spoke.

Hands continue reading …