This old man was wrong in so many ways if he thought he could separate her from her son.
"I didn't ask you to take my son as part of your family," Roseanne said, keeping her voice level.
Vittorio arched an eyebrow. "Let me rephrase my sentence," he said. "We will take him as part of our family." He stressed each syllable, making it clear that Roseanne had no say in the matter. "After all, he carries our blood. We take care of our blood, our family."
Roseanne could understand where he was coming from. In this family, she had seen how loyalty meant a great deal for them. She had watched Frederic and Soren banter like brothers, witnessed Mr. Hawke patching up Soren's wounds like he was his own son, and noticed the way the rest of the family operated with a kind of loyalty that was both enviable and terrifying.
Still, letting her son be taken by a syndicate family?
