Chapter Twenty-Four-Angel

My name is Angel Fury. Emphasis on my surname.

Yeah. It’s mine.

Some people think we made it up, Nico and me. But we didn’t.

Our family has a long history, and one of our great-aunts or something spent years tracing our roots back all the way to ancient Rome. She wrote a whole book about it, but it’s in Greek and I never got around to getting it translated.

Yiayia, our paternal grandmother, was born in Athens. She came to the states like most people during World War II from Greece.

Yiayia was quite the lady. She raised me after my parents died.

Oh, she was tough and loving. When Nico’s mother died of an overdose, how she wept for her daughter-in-law.

I am older than Nico, and maybe I remember things a little differently. Like the way she spoke Greek more often than not. It didn’t matter my mother was a mix of Italian, Irish, and Puerto Rican.