Chapter 49

Luca walked over to the liquor cabinet and poured himself another drink before walking back and sinking into the leather chair in which he had been seated for over an hour. He sat there silently for a second, appreciating the burn as the brandy coursed down his throat, he wasn’t trying to get drunk, he just needed alcohol in his system to help alleviate the tightening in his heart that was caused by the thought of what happened that changed his life forever, his phone buzzed signaling an incoming message, it rang earlier but he had been too troubled to pick up.

Luca checked his phone, he had a missed call and a text from Nicho and Ted, they wanted him to come to the casino and it sounded urgent, he was about to call them when his phone rang, it was Nora, she had his contact, which he had given her two days when she kept pressing the damn button but this was the first time that she was calling instead of just pressing the button, or maybe she did and he couldn’t hear her because he ha