Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die?<br><br>These are questions newly minted Doctor Marco Sartori d’Argenzio must face when he and his partner Danilo Rosati celebrate Marco’s completed residency and Danilo’s most recent PhD with a vacation at Marco’s father’s home in the Duchy of Aragoni. There Marco learns about his family’s legacy: his father is more than two thousand years old, and he can expect to live just as long.<br><br>Marco inherits his uncle’s title amidst adventure and danger, but it breaks his heart to realize that he’ll live only to see the man he’s loved for a decade grow old and die. However, there is hope: Danilo is studying the unique DNA of Marco’s family in hops of discovering the secret -- because Danilo has no intention of leaving Marco alone for what could be forever.

The Path to Forever

“A place like this probably has a dumbwaiter leading directly to the kitchen.”


We heard a knock, and I said, “Someone’s on time.”


“Yeah,” he said. “I’ll get it.”


When he opened the door, both Giuseppe and Luciano were standing in the corridor.


“Just in time,” Marco said. “Breakfast is served.”


He introduced the two men to each other, and the four of us sat down at the table. Good food induces good conversation, and we found out a lot more about Marco’s cousin. We learned a little more about Giuseppe’s background as well. When the generous supply of food was exhausted, we settled down in comfortable chairs with coffee.


“So, cousin,” Marco said, “do you think you’d like to come to work for the Conti group?”


“I have to ask you a very pointed question. I presume my grandmother will have told you that Dani and I are a couple, and have been for ten years. Does that bother you?”


Chapter 60