‘’We were kids. Mom should have pulled the trigger herself to protect us, not you.’’ Gino sounds broken, like this still affects him deeply, and there’s a hint of something more when he mentions her, betrayal or blame maybe. He holds his mother responsible for Alexi.

‘’Don’t do that, she wasn’t part of that life, and she didn’t have it in her to shoot anyone. She still couldn’t—so leave her out of this.’’ Alexi is warning him, and a hint that he loves his ...