8 months after burying his newborn daughter, a mafia boss heard four words that nearly brought him to his knees in the middle of her memorial. Lorenzo DeLuca was once the man who made all of New York tremble. He never needed to raise his voice to give an order. A single look from him was enough to silence even the most powerful people in the room.
The sound of the violin quartet continued to swell through the high, vaulted arches of the DeLuca mansion’s grand ballroom, but to Lorenzo, the music instantly dissolved into a high, piercing whine. “She’s still alive.” The four words echoed inside his skull, ricocheting against his brain with the force of a point-blank gunshot. His heart … Read more