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Prologue

           

My entire life has been spent in pure secrecy. Always hiding, always running. It was a constant battle of bad guys fighting the even worse guys and somehow, I always got caught in the middle of it. Not just me but I was always there.

I never had a place to call home, I never made friends outside of my family and the children and wives of the men who worked for my father and uncle. I was always on the move, never able to fully commit to anyone or any place, which only grew my tolerance for being isolated and alone.

I'm now 22 and should be graduating from university or seeing the world and falling in love, but instead I'm surrounded my iron gates, cameras documenting my every move and hundreds, maybe even thousands of armed guards.

Let me explain, my father, Marco Lombardi and my uncle, Giano, run the most elusive branch of the Italian Mafia in North America. My brothers, Vincent (Vinny) and Tony are twins, when they turned 17 they went to go work for my father and uncle, leaving my loving mother, Arabella and I all alone, with the exception of my Giano's wife, Maria and her two toddlers, Emily and Domenico. About every six months, maximum, we are relocated to a new, secluded part of the country, until one of my fathers "enemies" finds our general location and we are forced to move, once again.

My father and uncle don't relish in the enjoyment of talking about their business with me, but as I have gotten older, I have been able to pick up on certain tidbits and when I turned 17, they sat me down and explained it all to me. Usually the theory of keeping the people you care about in the dark about your bad doings is what's best, but in my case, the less I knew the worse it would be. So, without getting into too much detail, I'll just say this, they are the most worshiped and feared men in the entire continent. They deal with mostly drug and arms trafficking, they have killed a combined total of over 1,000 men and will probably stop at nothing until they have control and have enlisted fear in everyone.

It has been like this my entire life and even years before I was born, but we always had the twins to play man of the house while my father was on
business. It has been 6 years without them and last night, my beloved brothers were murdered.

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