“Kill her, get rid of the body, and blame her disappearance on Victor Fronzo. That’s your only option. Otherwise, you may as well kill yourself right now, because once Dominic finds out about this, nothing will stop him from killing you.”
“You’re insane. That’ll start a fucking war.”
“Maybe so, but it’s your only way out. It’s the only way you live.”
“I can’t fucking do that. I can’t kill her. It’d be like setting off a fucking atomic bomb in the Midwest. The violence between the families would be too much. Nobody would be safe, especially Dominic. It would change everything for the worse—much, much worse. I can’t do that.”
“Then kill yourself.”
“Fuck you.”
“No, fuck you! You ruined this whole thing. We could’ve both gotten what we wanted, but you went too far, you didn’t think all of it through, and now it’s blowing up in your face. It’s blowing up in both of our faces. So, I don’t give a fuck what you do. I don’t care what happens to Alannah. Either way, I’m done.”
“What? What the hell are you talking about?”
“I’m done, Tommy! It’s over.”
“You can’t fucking back out. You started this mess! This whole thing was your idea!”
“It was never my idea for people to wind up dead! Nobody was supposed to die. Raphael is dead, you shot that other poor kid in the neck, or some craziness, and now here we are with Alannah. It’s too much, and I don’t want any part of it anymore.”
“Bullshit. What about your plan to get Dominic out? What about the reason this whole thing started?”
“That’s what I wanted—it still is what I want. But I understand now that you can’t get out of this life without ending up dead. Maybe I was too naïve about that before, but I get it now. He’ll be the boss until he dies, and that’s something we’ll just have to deal with.”
“Goddamn it! Why couldn’t you have come to that conclusion before all this shit got started—before you called me in the middle of the night and had me meet with you last year? Now you wanna have an epiphany? After all that’s happened, now it becomes clear?”
“You wouldn’t understand, Tommy. You could never understand.”
“Oh, bullshit. I understand plenty. This is insane. You can’t leave this all on me. You can’t do me like this after getting me in this deep.”
“You took it too far, Tommy. The fact that you have that girl tied up somewhere is proof that all of this has gotten way out of hand. You put us both at risk with this stunt. So, that’s it, I’m done.”
“No you’re not done! Don’t you dare fucking hang up on me.”
“I don’t care what you do anymore. I don’t care what happens to Alannah. I don’t care about anything at all. I’m done. You’re on your own, Tommy. I hope Dominic shows you mercy.”
“Mercy? What are you, crazy? This is La Cosa Nostra, there is no mercy! Hello? You there? Goddamn it!”
