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"Diamonds?" Alec looks up at his father, who was on the other side of the huge table. "Do you want to go into that business?”

"I want you to get into this business. Alec... I don’t have any more...”

Blake swallows it dry. Evangeline’s words, about him telling the family about his illness, kept spinning in his mind. And while I am absolutely clear that the redheaded girl was right, the head of the Castello family felt that it was not yet time to speak. He didn’t want to take the focus away from Alec, the new businesses that were to come.

"Dad? Don’t have what?”

"Time to waste. This drug and prostitution business is getting old. The siege is closing.”

"And you think diamonds is the best thing to do at the moment? By the way, what do you want to do with it? Open a jewelry store?”

"No." Blake opens the cigar box and takes one. "A contact of years, sold me a source of rough diamond. It’s a secret mine under an old hill. You just need to meet with the miners and exchange the di