Chapter 223

"No, I told Niccolo and Mike that they would make the decision, and whatever they decided I would go along with. I used all my influence with them to come here today. I thought it was only fair to them to give them the option."

Michael Imperiali brought three bottles of wine to the table. He open each in front of the men. He put three small glasses in front of Patricia and poured a small amount of each wine into each glass. She drank each of them has he poured the wine into the glasses of each of the men.

He asked if they were ready to order and they did.

Two hours later, Michael Free had bit his fingernails up to his elbows. "What the fuck are they doing in there?"

"We can't tell boss, the parabolic listening devices are of no use. The music from inside his drowning out all the conversation and whatever other noise is going on inside. The windows are tinted so heavily we can't see through them. We do know two things, there