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32 “She can’t even read the menu, Alessandro. It’s pathetic.” Camilla Russo said it loudly enough for half of L’Étoile Noir to hear, and every fork in the room seemed to stop in midair. I stood beside table four with a bottle of sparkling water in my hand, wearing shoes repaired with glue and a uniform whose cuffs had begun to fray. Across from me sat Alessandro Moretti, New York’s most feared capo, a man whose family owned buildings, unions, politicians, and perhaps the silence surrounding all three. He did not defend me or look away; he simply studied my face, waiting to see whether the poor waitress would break.