At a private Mafia-family wedding, three-year-old Elisa accidentally bumped a pedestal and shattered an antique porcelain vase.
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Chapter 14
Preston apologized last.
Not because he changed last.
Because he resisted naming the real thing.
He kept saying:
“I wanted stability.”
Maybe.
Then one evening:
“I liked imagining people would need me.”
There.
Better.
The Custodian Table gave him a future importance he had not earned.
He did not want Sebastian dead.
He wanted Sebastian’s absence to finally make Preston central.
That hunger distorted everything.
He eventually built his own business outside Caradonna structures.
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Good.
Power earned somewhere else suited him better.
