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As Richie finished getting ready for work, he wondered about Rebecca’s phone call. She sounded unhappy. He hated that he'd pretty much pushed her away. In time, he told himself, he’d make everything right again. But at the moment, he had too much going on that he wasn’t ready to tell her about.
Before leaving the house, he picked up a case of Uncle Silvio’s homemade wine from his basement, his usual “private reserve,” and put it on the passenger seat of his Porsche. He then drove to a mansion in Presidio Heights, an area with homes of the rich and famous, including politicians, big business CEOs, the country’s top attorneys, and one of the richest, most powerful men in the city’s Italian community.
Giorgio Boiardi, called Don Giorgio, had headed a “West Coast operation” until he was s
