Chapter 10: Six Weeks

Here's what nobody tells you about selling yourself. It's fast. It takes four seconds. And then you have to live the rest of your life in the silence afterward. They cut my father loose at 4 a.m. He held my face in both hands and cried and I told him it was fine, it was fine, it was fine. Then two of Salvatore's men drove him to a hotel and two more stood outside the door, and that's what "free" means in this family. Damien didn't speak to me for three days. Not once. He moved out of the...