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“Did you meet with my uncle in person?”

“I did.”

“What about my cousin Aurelio?”

“Tall guy, perpetually pissed off?”

“That’s the one.”

“Yes, he was there, too.”

“By any chance… was there a woman present?”

“Mid to late twenties, very pretty, glasses, studious looking?”

Niccolo’s eyes shone as he leaned forward. “So you did see her.”

“She didn’t say much – hardly anything at all.”

“It doesn’t matter,” he said excitedly. “Tell me everything.”