Chapter 78

“That was a pleasant diversion,” Dani said.

“No kidding.” I looked at my watch. “I have a patient in a few minutes, babe. Got to run.”

“See you at five,” he said.

Nothing worthy of note happened over the next few months, other than a quiet birthday celebration when the boys turned four. Then when classes ended for Lucia at the end of May, we moved back to our house on the mountain and began to drive to work every day. It was such a relief to be able to actually drive ourselves with only one security car trailing us. After the bad guys had been wiped out by their rivals in the Piedmont region, our security people had finally decided that the threat to our safety was effectively gone—not that we were careless in any way. SignorPiedmont Winery had been tried, convicted, and executed by the end of March.