The Fifth Avenue Series Boxed Set
“She wanted to be alone with Mario’s father. She wanted to speak to him in private. She willed this woman to go away.
“Will there be anything else, Mr. De Cicco?”
Antonio De Cicco gave the young lady such a surprisingly suggestive smile, that Lucia immediately became suspicious of their relationship.
“No, Gloria,” he said. “That’s all for now.”
The woman left the room.
De Cicco leaned forward in his seat, chose one of the cups from the silver coffee service and lifted it to his lips. They were in the library of his Todt Hill mansion and the smoke from his ever-present cigar was beginning to make Lucia’s eyes burn.
She looked at the man seated before her. He was amazing, really. Dressed immaculately in a gray suit, his face tanned from hours in the sun, the man was pushing seventy years old—and yet he looked fifty.
Ashamed of his meager beginnings in Sicily—and as vain as any person could be—Antonio De Cicco worked hard to look as professional and as educated as any man hustling o...n Wall Street. In repose, the illusion worked. But when he spoke, his fifth-grade education became embarrassingly apparent.MoreLess
“Will there be anything else, Mr. De Cicco?”
Antonio De Cicco gave the young lady such a surprisingly suggestive smile, that Lucia immediately became suspicious of their relationship.
“No, Gloria,” he said. “That’s all for now.”
The woman left the room.
De Cicco leaned forward in his seat, chose one of the cups from the silver coffee service and lifted it to his lips. They were in the library of his Todt Hill mansion and the smoke from his ever-present cigar was beginning to make Lucia’s eyes burn.
She looked at the man seated before her. He was amazing, really. Dressed immaculately in a gray suit, his face tanned from hours in the sun, the man was pushing seventy years old—and yet he looked fifty.
Ashamed of his meager beginnings in Sicily—and as vain as any person could be—Antonio De Cicco worked hard to look as professional and as educated as any man hustling o...n Wall Street. In repose, the illusion worked. But when he spoke, his fifth-grade education became embarrassingly apparent.MoreLess
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