CHAPTER 36

Thomas

Thomas takes off his Hermes suit jacket and tosses it onto the couch. He walks to the bar and pours himself a drink. Thomas gestures for the man who looks like he’s about to pee in his pants to approach him. The man trembles with fear as he gets closer to Thomas. Thomas takes a sip of his scotch before reaching into his back pocket for a cigarette.

“Light it up for me, Alberto,” Thomas says, holding out his cigarette, but the man is unable to do so because he won’t stop quivering.

“Don’t worry, I can do it myself.” Thomas takes the lighter from his hand and lights it himself.

“So tell me what happened again,” Thomas says, taking a drag on his cigarette. The man narrates to Thomas what happened in the past few minutes.

Once the man is done talking, Thomas puts out his cigarette and finishes his drink in one swing.

“Repeat the last sentence, Alberto,” Thomas says, folding his shirt sleeves.

“That’s how I lost Miss Melina, sotto capo…” Thomas lands a hard punch on Alberto’s f