Chapter 85

For as long as I could remember, the training arena of the Lucchese estate had been my place of comfort. A place more home than home itself. Maybe it was the lingering scents of sweat and leather, softening the crisp fall air into almost summer comfort.

Maybe it was that, surrounded by an arsenal of weapons I’d mastered long ago, this was the one place I felt safe.

Right now, perhaps, it was becau