Isabella

"I changed him?" I wanted to ask. Alessandro looked at me with eyes that pleaded for understanding.

"Tell me about what happened," I settled for, and he did. He told me about how Damon and the rest of his men, injured, followed him to the pathways of the Mafia in Rome.

I could tell that Alessandro didn't want to say the full thing about how Damon killed a number of people who may not have been involved with what happened to me, but I pried it out of him nonetheless.

By the time he was done with his tale of how Damon had them finish off the men that...