Dominic ran an international private security firm.

Ezra owned global logistics companies.

Sebastian was a top-tier criminal defense attorney.

Elias specialized in high-stakes forensic accounting.

And Rafael worked in high-level intelligence and private investigation.

Preston called them gangsters.

He said it behind their backs, to his friends, because it made him feel superior to have married into what he imagined was something slightly criminal and beneath him, a wife with a dangerous, disreputable family he could look down on.

I had never once bothered to correct him.