#Chapter 89 – Nico’s Plan

I’m completely still, just staring at Nico, my mind whirling even as I freeze. Because what he’s saying – it’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard. The idea of just leaving? Of never seeing Christian ever again – after I finally found him, after I’d already thought him lost? Of…of not even being able to email him again, to tell him the things I used to write almost every day in message after message? And Frankie – to never laugh with him again? To never see the way his smile lights up his face!? My heart sinks in my chest, absolutely devastated by the idea. But…even as it does…I realize that Nico is right. That the clear solution here is to just go, to leave them to their lives, to stop messing them up. Christian – he would move on, forget about me, marry Violetta – have lots of…little mafia babies, or whatever. And Frankie, he would go back to whatever it was he was doing before, which I think made him perfectly happy. And if Nico can help me… “I’ll get you money,” Nico says, his