Chapter 24 - I LEAVE THE STUDY
At sixty-two, I stopped presiding over Corsini Holdings day to day.
Professional CEO.
Independent directors.
My shares remained.
My surname remained.
My office did not need to.
I kept the old study at Villa Corsini for personal work.
Then Lucy said:
“It looks like Dracula runs a logistics company.”
I renovated.
Lighter walls.
More windows.
Dominic called it sacrilege.
He retired the next year.
At his dinner I told everyone:
“This man spent thirty years preventing Corsinis from converting anger into criminal exposure.”
Dominic answered:
“Unsuccessfully, some evenings.”
Fair.
Then the old Mafia language began fading.
Capo became joke.
Consigliere became what Dominic actually was:
Counsel.
Security remained.
Wealth attracts risk.
May you like
History attracts curiosity.
But no child in the house needed to learn that dark suits meant authority over them.
