Chapter 13
Astorre understood three things. One, men like Max don’t keep popping up unless there was a reason. Two, the target must be either Clara, or Olivia, and at the same time, his sister wanted to leave. So three, he needed a reason for her to stay.
One that wasn’t taking over his responsibility.
With Clara at his side, he would accept his place as a responsible Lord of Montelino Bay.
He went into his old room, and saw the locked closet, his boyhood clothes, and toys.
This was once his sanctuary when he was hiding from his father’s temper and he knew every floor board. And every hole in the wall. He moved back one of the floorboards with his foot that triggered the small tear in the wall paint that held that letter he’d only glanced at as a boy. His fingers were almost too big t
