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Two days after their date, Matthew flew to Italy to visit father Josè, who'd been rushed to the hospital due to a mild heart attack, which is what he'd directed his secretary to tell his children before he fell unconscious. He called them his children because that is who they were in every sense of the word except by birth. But it turned out it was almost big enough to m**m him.
Matthew sighed when he entered the room, walking to stand on the priest's left as he acknowledged the men already present.
Four men that he grew up with. Three of whom he shared an affinity with, and the other, a man curving his way through politics, would most likely end up in the White House.
Raphael, Bruno, and Romano stood on the left except for Gabriel, a US judge seated in a blue plasti
