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"Water," I answered honestly.
Tony's eyebrows lifted up to his hairline. "Water?"
"Not like water from a faucet or in a pool, but water where you can't see the bottom? You'll never find me in a lake or the ocean unless I'm on a boat, and maybe not even then."
"Why are you afraid of water?"
I sighed. "When I was a kid, I was at the lake with my family and some friends. I was swimming in the designated swimming area, which was surrounded by a big cable attached to buoys."
"How old were you?"
"I must have been about ten years old at the time," I replied. "Anyway, I was swimming with my friends and standing on the cable when I slipped and slid into the water. When I hit bottom, I dislodged a body someone had tossed into the lake and it floated to the surface right in front of me. Haven't been able to swim in deep water since."
Tony shuddered. "Yeah, I'm with you. No deep water."
"You'll get used to flying," I told him. "We travel a lot to visit different business sights and such. It'll be really hard to do business if you don't fly."
Tony groaned. "I'll get used to it, but it may take awhile."
"Well, you have a lot of catching up to do at home, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem." Before he could go out into the business world and wheel and deal, he needed to understand the business.
"God, I might have slept for four hours, but I'm still tired."
"We'll be home soon," I said. "You can rest there."
"How far is home?"
"We're based in Genoa so about two hours by car."
"Genoa doesn't have an airport?" Tony asked.
"It does, but Fred thought it would be better for us to land at a different airport in case anyone was watching the airport in Genoa."
"You know they are going to figure it out eventually, right?"
"Yes," I replied, "but hopefully not until we're behind the walls of your estate." I knew that place was safe. I'd set up the security myself and improved it over the years.
"How sure are you that we'll be safe there?" Tony asked. "I mean, someone did just take out my entire family."
"They did, but they placed the bomb at the wedding venue, not the villa." Nothing was ever perfectly safe, but the villa and its grounds were as safe as I could make them. "Whoever did this had to wait until the family left the villa to kill them."
"Wait." Tony frowned. "Everyone lived at the villa?"
"No, no, the family was spread out all over the place. We even had people fly in from Japan for the wedding. But no one could get a bomb onto villa grounds so they waited until everyone left for the wedding."
Tony's sigh was long and heavy. "I say we nix any large gatherings for the foreseeable future."
"Probably not a bad idea." I didn't point out the fact that there was no one left to have a large gathering with. There was just him, and I'd do anything to make sure he didn't die like the others.
Yeah, there was a lot of guilt there. I should have seen it coming. Granted, I had warned Don D'Angelo that such a large gathering outside the grounds of the villa was a bad idea, but he had dismissed my concerns.
The ego on that man had been huge. He fully believed that he was so powerful, no one would ever go against him. Unfortunately, he and a lot of innocent people had paid for that mistake with their lives.
I wasn't going to let that happen to Tony.
When the airplane came to a stop inside the hangar, I unbuckled my seatbelt and stood, waiting For Tony.
"Don't we need to check in with immigration or something?"
