Everything's starting to make sense.
"But she was pregnant," I mumbled, and Gio nodded.
"She didn't want to raise a child on the run," he said. "She was terrified they'd hurt her baby, and she knew fighting would be pointless. With no other family members to back them up... they would have just killed both of them and staged it to look like an accident. Rosie knew that. So, she offered a solution. She wouldn't disappear completely, but she'd stay away from Leonardo. She'd raise their baby in secret, and she wouldn't interfere."
"And Leonardo went for that?" Kaizen asked, clearly not liking the idea.
"The family and Rosie didn't give him much of a choice," Gio replied. "Plus, this was the only way to keep them all safe, and still be able to be in his son's life. No one knew. Not even m
