12. Luciano

Past

April 2009

After the scene with Mr. Russo, my father didn't come to me like I thought he would. Honestly, I thought his response would be to crucify me, but he just went on to ignore me which was generally excellent, yet meant the calm before the storm.

Hadrian looked at me with suppressed rage, an almost blinding rage that meant revenge, but I didn't understand why marriage was more important to him, what it might or might not mean in his scheme of things in his head.

I wasn't on a mission to understand my cruel elder brother.

I had enough on my plate with an absent mother, a controlling father, a sister on the verge of mental breakdown, and a brother capable of going to war, while Grandpa fought our battles. It was too much to worry about my father's importance to a marriage I never asked for.

So, I took advantage of the fact that I had the last free hour to go to the Central Library to do some research. If Matteo Basciano found out that he had done extensive searches on Mr. R