Heavy Crown by Sophie Lark EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Sophie Lark
- Language: English
- Genre: Organized Crime Thrillers
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SEBASTIAN
I’m sitting in the corner booth of La Mer with my two brothers and my
little sister Aida. It’s an hour past closing time, so the servers have
already taken the linen and glassware off the tables, and the cooks are
just finishing their deep-clean of the stovetops and fridges.
The bartender is still doing his nightly inventory check, probably lingering
longer than usual in case any of us want one last drink. That’s the perk of
owning the restaurant—nobody can kick you out.
La Mer is known for its high-end seafood—halibut and salmon flown in
from the east coast every morning, and king crab legs longer than your arm.
We all feasted on butter-drenched lobster earlier in the evening. For the last
several hours we’ve simply been sipping our drinks and talking. This might
be our last night all together for a while.
Dante leaves for Paris tomorrow morning. He’s taking his wife, his son, and
his brand-new baby girl across the Atlantic for what he’s calling an
extended honeymoon. But I’ve got a feeling that he’s not coming back.
Dante never wanted to become the capocrimine. He’s been the de facto
leader of our family for years only because he’s the eldest—not because it
was his ambition.
Of course my father is still the real don, but his health is getting worse
every year. He’s been delegating more and more of the running of our
family business. It used to be that he personally handled every meeting with
the other mafia families, no matter how small the issue. Now he only puts
on his suit and goes out for the most dire of situations.
He’s become a hermit in our old mansion on Meyer Ave. If our housekeeper
Greta didn’t also live there full-time, eating lunch with him, and listening to
him complain about how Steinbeck should be ranked higher than
Hemingway in the pantheon of authors, then I might be seriously worried
about him.
I guess I feel guilty because I could be living there with him, too. All the
rest of my siblings have moved out—Dante and Aida to get married, Nero
to live with his girlfriend Camille in the apartment over her brand-new
custom car mod shop.
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