Carol's eyebrow lifted slowly. "Then marry her."
"I already married Bianca Vitale."
Carol smiled then. "Your father finally did it uhn. He always wanted control of the Vitale's docks. He finally got it."
"Yes." Luca's answer came flat.
There was no point pretending otherwise. Everyone who knew the Genovese family knew that marriage had never been about love. It had been a transaction the moment it was arranged.
"I birthed him a weapon." Carol looked up at her son. "And you embraced the life so easily, it's as if there is no part of me inside you."
"Mum, focus."
"Have her join the familia under the Genovese protection, specifically yours. Any one in the familia who hurts her would have committed treason. But that doesn't keep her safe from your rivals."
Luca nodded slowly. He could work with that.
