SONG PLAYED: “Do It For Me” by Rosenfeld.

~ALEXANDRO’S POV~

FLASHBACK:

The Castello mansion smelled like fresh lilies and betrayal the night Leonardo came home.

A whole month away for business, and no one thought to clue me in on what kind of business needed my stepfather to disappear like a ghost and reemerge with an even darker flash in his eye.

I was sixteen.

Old enough to know how to cock a gun, but still too young to be trusted with the real kind of power…the type that ruined men, that turned blood into currency and truth into collateral.

Leonardo said I had ambition. Said I had ‘the makings’....