Chapter 116. Take Care of Yourself

ALESSANDRO

[Flashback]

It was a rainy night in New York approximately five years ago.

I was driving down the highway maybe speeding even, but who cares?

I drummed my fingers on the steering wheel to the beat of whatever hip hop junk was playing on the stereo.

I had gone out to celebrate and maybe catch some fun in celebration of the successful opening of Phantom Hotels.

I had shut down the club and made it rain.

I was young. I was successful. I was handsome. Of course I had the world at my feet.

Not to talk of the underworld. I was the mafia boss of the Italian mafia. My life couldn’t get any better.

I had whatever I wanted and got whatever I wanted. Things came easy to me. Money, women, power.

I had it all in abundance.

I snapped my finger to the beat as I focused on the road ahead as it was raining and the roads were always slippery when it poured.

I was driving home alone to my empty house after having such a