The Farm
She Held His Face Like She Was Testing Fruit.
Jason Clarke grew up on a farm.
He thought he knew what that meant.
Chapter 11 of Hold Fast takes Jason upstate — on a plane the size of a dinner table, white-knuckling Rami’s hand the entire way — to meet the woman who built the Moretti family from the ground up. Maria Moretti doesn’t greet people. She evaluates them. And her verdict on Jason comes in a single word.
Piccolo.
What happens at the farm over the next twenty-four hours will change everything Jason thought he understood about Rami, about the world he’s walked into, and about himself. He’ll meet someone he didn’t know existed. He’ll learn something about his own capabilities that surprises even him. And Nonna will find him alone by the fig trees at dusk and give him exactly one instruction.
It’s not a request.
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