Alessandro smiles fondly, and Attravere gets a seat between his aged mentor and the hot number he hooked up with last spring, Azura.
"I want this bastard to burn," she whispers to Attravere. "I want to raise his ghost and dig up his body so I can eviscerate the sonofabitch over and over and over again and make him watch." She clenches her long narrow fingers into an awkward fist.