Chapter 11: The Cliff Road

He doesn't answer me in the car. He doesn't answer me for three days. Instead he moves me. Out of the black wing into a room on the south side with white curtains and a window full of lake, because Matteo lets slip that the Don asked whether human girls prefer light. Instead he starts eating breakfast with me. Every morning. He never says why. Instead I catch him standing in my doorway at midnight, just looking at me sleeping, and when I open my eyes he says gruffly, "Go back to sleep, Elena,"...