I grabbed the Murano glass vase from the console table beside me and hurled it to the floor. It shattered across the marble in a spray of blue and gold. My chest heaved. The sound echoed through the hall, and somewhere deeper in the house, footsteps paused.
The woman flinched, her gaze dropping to the floor the way everyone's did in this house when the air changed. "It was Signora Ferraro's instructions. She said the Don agreed that she's also the lady of the house. You're the first Signora Rossetti, and she's the second..."
She was still talking when I snatched my keys from the hook by the side entrance and drove to the hospital. The two soldiers stationed at the gate didn't try to stop me. They knew better. But I saw one of them reach for his phone in the rearview mirror, and I knew Tomasso would hear I was coming before I arrived.
By the time I walked through the hospital doors, Catarina had already delivered.