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psyche. After I left, I instantly regretted not taking her up on her offer. I was fighting not calling her and caved in. I shouldn’t have asked her out on a date, and I sure as hell amazed myself when I told her my actual address and about our company. The company Adriano and I built that is also used as a front to launder money.
    Turning into the parking lot of the restaurant where I’m meeting Adriano, I cut off the engine and rake my hands through my hair. I’ve stopped listening to my rational side when it comes to her. As the underboss, I’m treading on dangerous ground if I become attached to Fallon.  
    Opening the door of the Italian restaurant, I see Adriano’s already seated in the back booth. “Luca,” he welcomes.
    I nod my head. “Did you finish everything in Crystal Lake?” Adriano stayed behind to relay the rules of the territory to Leggia’s men. They can pretend to regulate the drug traffic there. Additional investigation surrounding the Crystal Lake territory came up empty. Leggia wants it for no apparent reason; he can have it.
    “Yes. It’s all done. They weren’t—”
    The waitress, a tall redhead, hands us menus.
    Adriano flirts with her and the shy little thing doesn’t know how to react to him. “I’ll be back to take your order, sir.”
    He continues after red is out of hearing distance. “They weren’t receptive. Where Leggia finds his arrogant soldiers, I’ll never know.”
    “I don’t get why Leggia wanted it in the first place. Salvatore didn’t find anything interesting we might’ve overlooked. They’re now solely responsible for any drug activity on Crystal Lake ground, and that place is abhorrent to rule.”
    “Good riddance,” Adriano agrees. “I’m getting the Arrabbiata pasta.” He waves over the redhead. “And I’m thinking of getting her too. A fiery redhead will do me some good tonight.”
    “I’ll have the same.” I take another good look at red. “Good luck. She’s seems pretty timid to me.”
    She hurries toward us. “Did you make a choice, sir?”
    I indicate with a swift nod to Adriano to play his game with her. “Two Arriabbiata , with extra Parmigiano .”
    I hand her my menu. When she takes Adriano’s, he holds on to it to get her attention.  He winks at her and her cheeks redden before she turns away.
    “If I can’t have her tonight, I’m going to the house.”
    James uses a house alongside the North Shore of Chicago’s suburbs as our center of operations. It’s located in a secluded area without neighbors in sight, and the deed is in Alessa’s maiden name. Alessa is James’ wife, but they never legally married. We - the highest ranking members of the Chicago Calderone Syndicate - all know her as Alessa Calderone, but legally and officially, she isn’t connected to James whatsoever.
    “Haven’t you been through all the women at the house?” I joke, although there could be some truth in that statement.
    “Probably, but I want to fuck tonight.” Adriano sits back and is cautious to ask me his next question. “What did you do today?”
    I sigh, realizing he wants to know if I was with her. “Fallon.”
    He’s not even surprised. “You talked to her again? Did you get any resourceful info for us? We need Danny,” he reminds me.
    Danny Mancuso is number one on our wanted list. Danny worked for James behind the scenes for years. Even the Mafia needs IT men. We need them to hack into every government system that could have important information for us and to make the people we finish off disappear from every system as if they never existed. Danny’s one of the best hackers in town.
    After five years, Salvatore found out that Danny also became avaricious. He was programming and leaving behind viruses so that we had to pay him more to eliminate those viruses before the hacked system detected that we had access to it.
    Being a hacker for our crime syndicate is a covetous job. The reward is high but so is the risk. The hacker has