Buttons and Blood

Crow Barsetti knows about me-and he doesn't like it.

I know he's paying his top guys to dig up every piece of dirt they can find, but I don't care what he discovers. There's nothing I've done that he hasn't done himself. All that matters is I love his daughter-and he's going to accept it.

I get a call in the middle of the night while Vanessa is dead asleep-and it's him. He asks to meet in the back of one of his clubs, where we can speak without his daughter's interruption. It's the first ti...