Predictable as always, Gino told me, “Let me have a moment to discuss this opportunity with my boys, if you will.”

“Of course.” Turning away, I joined Tristan on the other side of the platform.

“Do you think he’ll go for it?” he asked me.

“I do,” I told him with more assurance than I felt. “He’d be a fool not to. All I’m asking him to do is stand with me when I dethrone my father. There’s very little risk for him and a lot of money to gain.”

Always the devil’s advocate, he said, “But like he said, he’s known your father since they were kids. Will that...