After the gala, I was spending more time with Colin at his mansion, I also got to spend more time with Colin Snr, who insisted I call him pops. To me it was strange but after a few weeks I was growing used to it.
Pops would tell me stories of when dad was little and all about my grandmother, who was killed twenty years ago but a rival mafia family. I was sad when he told me about it.
I guess the threat is real. I was being naive to think that the stories were just that, stories, not real life and so dramatic.
Pops did say that things have calmed down a lot over the years, as the families grow, with weddings and the joining of families through business. I thought it would have been the opposite to be honest.
With all the different families and personalities, you would think there woul
