Chapter 31: Revelations

The next few minutes happen as if in slow motion.

One second Luca is standing next to his older brother, his fist raised. The next his arm is soaring through the air, and before I can even move, his fist is colliding with Dante's face. Dante isn't prepared for the strike, and the blow knocks him over backward.

It takes a second for the people around them to notice. But one by one, they all turn. The happy party smiles shift into expressions of shock and surprise. A couple of people cry out.

All this before I find the ability to move. Ashlyn is frozen, too.

We both snap into action at the same time, nearly tripping over each other - and over the poor waiter picking up the broken glass - in our effort to get to the door. We squeeze past each other to get inside, and we push through the crowd almost as one.

By the time we reach the men, Rafe is already there, pulling Luca off of their brother.

Luca looks nothing like himself. His golden hair falls in disheveled strands across his fa