Chapter 231. The Wedding Date

The meeting with Don Cesare Lombardi was arranged three days later. And Rico did not hold it at The Palazzo.

This was not council business. This was family business, and family business deserved a different kind of room. So he chose one of the Romano private estates sitting quietly outside the city, away from the noise and the politics. 

The air was calmer there. The walls didn’t have ears. And if things went in a direction Rico didn’t like, he preferred that it happened somewhere he fully controlled.

The estate was large without trying to show off about it. Tall trees lined the road leading up to the building, standing on either side like old guards who had been there long before any of them and would remain long after. 

The building itself overlooked open land. It was wide, calm, and unhurried. Security had already been