*Giovani*

I pulled my black car into my usual parking spot and turned to look at Alessandro. He was staring straight ahead, his back stiff with some sort of emotion that I hadn’t yet identified. We had spent the day checking out the shipping yard and looking for intel in the city, but we hadn’t found much.

I would have preferred to make the trip alone, but I had hoped that bringing along Alessandro would help smooth things over between us and show him that I was ...