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It was a good way to end up dead.
"Nephew!"
When my uncle rushed toward me, I held out a hand to stop him and looked at Luca. "Can I have a few minutes with my uncle?" I glared at Uncle Carmine. "I need to remind him of the rules of etiquette."
"I'll go see if Sophia has started breakfast yet," Luca said as he started out of the room.
I waited until the door closed behind him before turning on my uncle. "Are you insane? You don't talk to the head of another family like that." I know I had already said that, but apparently it needed to be repeated. "Luca could—"
My uncle reared back. "Luca? You call Sabatino by his first name and you want to remind me of the rules?"
"He told me to," I retorted.
"He's the one that kidnapped you, Vito."
Man, my uncle needed to get a clue.
"And who told you that?"
"It doesn't matter," Uncle Carmine insisted. "We just need to get out of here."
I narrowed my eyes, a sliver of unease sliding down my spine. "Why?"
"Look, our men are waiting outside the gates. As soon as we get out of here, they are going to come in and take Sabatino down. None of the other families will sanction us considering Sabatino took out the entire D'Angelo family."
He really was insane.
I took a hasty step back from my uncle. I didn't want to catch whatever had made him crazy. "Luca didn't kill the D'Angelo family. He wasn't even in the country when it happened."
Uncle Carmine snorted. "But his men were here. You don't think he could have ordered someone to set the bomb? He was probably out of the country to give himself an alibi."
"He was out of the country rescuing his husband. He could care less what was going on with the D'Angelo family."
"Look, the Romano family promised me that if we could take Sabatino out, they would sign a peace accord with us. Do you have any idea what that means? With the D'Angelo family gone, we can—"
"Who said the D'Angelo family was gone?" Tony asked as he walked into the study. "I'm still here and last time I checked you couldn't sign a peace agreement without my signature."
Uncle Carmine's eyes rounded. "You're alive."
"Very much so," Tony replied.
"But they said you were dead."
"They who?" I asked.
"The Romanos. They showed me pictures of the crash scene. There were even pictures of Sabatino's guards pulling Vito out of the wreck, but they said you burned up in the fire."
Tony snorted, crossing his arms. "They lied."
"Oh, we were kidnapped all right," I said. "We were taken to a warehouse right here in Palermo."
"See?" Uncle Carmine asked with righteous indignation. "I knew it was Sabatino."
"It wasn't actually," Tony said. "Luca rescued us."
Uncle Carmine frantically shook his head. "That's just what he wants you to believe."
Tony's eyes narrowed, and that was never a good thing. "Why are you so against Luca Sabatino?"
