Simple Joy of Putting Warm Food in the Stomach
Gael drove them in a black escalade towards a basketball court a few blocks away from Nonna Flavia's house. They rode separately from the others. He told Angela that the escalade was his car in New York and that he had one of his men bring it over from a garage where he stored it whenever he wasn't here. The vehicle was large and luxurious and it fitted a tall man with a large frame like him so much more than the sedan he drove in Esmea. She asked him about it, and he only told her that he didn't want to draw attention to himself—thus the smaller car.
And she understood. It made perfect sense. She still didn't entirely understand and know about the agreement his family had with the Parks who ruled over the state of Esmea, but she did know that they couldn't stay there for long.