Chapter 59

• It seemed to Luca that the day was as eerie and quiet as the night after Gio's betrayal. Once again, there was that strange calm, a strange sense of peace even with his impending doom.
• He had made his peace, paid his debt. He wasn't going down without a fight, but he was resigned to his fate.
• He was carefully dressed in a pair of black pants and a white shirt. Ricky might as well bury him tonight. He had notified his cop friends on the police force to stand back and let tonight's battle play out the way it was supposed to. He couldn't care less about the news headlines after he was gone. All that he wanted was for them to confirm that Fran was safe and settled somewhere far from here.