Chapter 150. A Lonely Road

The Man in Black loved to listen to classical music. He played the piano sometimes. It did well to fill the silence. The silence that often seemed ever-present no matter where he went.

A lot of his dealings took him outside. Few people had seen his face in New York, and fewer people there knew his name.

He used to love playing chess with Dahlia when she was a much younger girl. She talked a lot when she played, promising wins after every game she lost. She could trash talk too. It always made him feel very happy listening to her. He would laugh out loud over and over.

But then she grew older, and she got busier, and he had so few people he could trust, so she had to handle many things for him in the USA at times when he was away, which eventually became all the time.

He had such fond memories with all of the brothers, even the newest addition, Mama. She’d been his bodyguard at a very young age, even younger than Stones had been when he was a bodyguard, but t