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Family gossip turned the bodyguards into a dramatic vote. It was simpler. They worked for me. Legally. Operationally. Rinaldi Protective Services was owned by a holding company with independent management. …
Chapter 7 – THE BODYGUARDS Read More Celeste Rinaldi was my grandfather’s youngest sister’s daughter. Technically my grandaunt by family habit rather than strict generation? We called her that. She had no children. Never married. Spent thirty …
Chapter 6 – CELESTE THE KEEPER Read More Three weeks before the dinner, my father complained about Sophie in the portrait gallery. She had placed a sticker on the frame of my great-grandfather. Not the painting. The …
Chapter 5 – THE FIRST WARNING I IGNORED Read More
The place cards were printed by a local stationer. Bethany Cole, our event manager, received the seating list from my office. My seat: Matteo Rinaldi. Beside it: Sophie Rinaldi. No …
Chapter 4 – THE MISSING PLACE CARD Read More Rinaldi House was built in 1911. Too large. Too expensive. Beautiful in the exhausting way old family estates become beautiful when five generations refuse to sell anything. The grand staircase …
Chapter 3 – THE UPPER FLOOR Read More Her full name was Sophie Grace Rinaldi. Four years and two months old. She liked strawberry yogurt unless it contained actual pieces of strawberry. She believed the moon followed our …
Chapter 2 – SOPHIE RINALDI Read More My daughter screamed from above me. I had heard Sophie scream many times in four years. When bathwater got in her eyes. When a moth landed on her pillow. …
Chapter 1 – BEFORE SHE TOUCHED A STEP Read More