Mansueto Moretti

### Age

Late Sixties (in *Bound by Love*)Early-Mid Seventies to Early-Mid Eighties (in *Sweet Temptation*)

## Known Relatives

### Family

* Cassio Moretti (son)
* Gaia Moretti † (daughter-in-law)
	+ Daniele Moretti (adoptive grandson)
	+ Simona Moretti (adoptive granddaughter)
* Giulia Moretti (daughter-in-law)
	+ Gabriel Moretti (grandson)
* Ilaria (daughter)
* Unnamed Son-In-Law
	+ Two or More Unnamed Grandchildren
* Mia (daughter)
* Emiliano (son-in-law)
	+ Unnamed Granddaughter
	+ Unnamed Granddaughter
	+ Unnamed Grandson

## Appearance

### Gender

Male

**Mansueto Moretti** is a minor character in the Mafia Standalone, *Sweet Temptation* and in the Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles. He is married to an unnamed woman and has three children Cassio, Ilaria and Mia.

## Appearance and Character

In Bound by Love, all of the current Underbosses are in their late forties to their late sixties, with himself later saying that "in my almost seventy years I've never seen beauty like Aria's".

His Capo Luca Vitiello describes him as using a cane and says that since his second heart attack three months prior, he has become a shadow of the man he had known.

*To be continued...*

## Born In Blood

### Bound By Love

#### *Approx October 2014*

When Luca calls a meeting of all of his Underbosses at the Sphere. He is described as using a can and recovering from his second heart attack three months prior. Luca says that his family is loyal to the bone and that his death will lead to more trouble.

The next morning all of the Underbosses, Captains, and Soldiers meet at the abandoned Yonkers power plant, which the press calls the Gateway to Hell. Mansueto and his son and heir Cassio are both in attendance and after the events, they approach Luca. He compliments Luca's wife, Aria, in a way that makes Luca tense, to which Cassio sends his father a warning and Luca an apologetic look. Mansueto proceeds to say that he knows it is not a good time, but that he needs to talk to Luca about his succession. Cassio's mouth tightens and he says that he is not going to die today, to which Mansueto responds with "but maybe tomorrow". Luca levels his gaze at Cassio and says that he will take over for his father. Cassio inclines his head and responds that if he gives his assent and that he is young, Luca points out that he is older than himself by four years and the Famiglia needs young blood, turning to Mansueto and saying no offense. He says no offense taken.

#### *August 10th, 2015*

Luca holds another meeting, much to his chagrin on his first wedding anniversary. Cassio is there representing his father while he is in the hospital. It is mentioned that there had been a major Bratva attack on a Famiglia drug depot a month prior in Philadelphia and Luca inquires how they are fairing. He thinks to himself that it is time for him to take over for his father officially, but he wants to wait until his brother and Consigliere, Matteo Vitiello, returns from his search for his missing fiancee, Gianna Scuderi, before announcing the change.

#### *December 2015*

Cassio is in attendance at the Bardoni's Christmas party. Cassio tells Luca that his father's health is not improving and that he cannot take care of business anymore. Luca says that he will announce him as Underboss at the next meeting surprising Cassio. He shares with Luca that he thought that he might perhaps want to give the position to one of his cousins to appease his family. Luca says that his family will bow down to his command if they know what's good for them. Cassio is loyal, and he prefers to reward loyalty rather than favor someone because of their blood. Luca is then pulled away by Gianna, and that is the last mention of the Morettis in this book.

It is later said that Mansueto and his wife spent their evenings watching classics or playing backgammon. Now that he had the time for it since his retirement.

## Mafia Standalones

### Sweet Temptation

#### *December 27th, 2017*

Mansueto gets a call from his son's soldier Faro asking him to come to Cassio's home. He gets details from Faro at some point and after he arrives Cassio hears his father's voice from the corridor and goes to find him and Faro waiting for him. Cassio wishes that he could have kept this all from his father. Mansueto limps towards Cassio, looking pale and weak, greets him, and tells him that no one will blame him if he wants to make Gaia disappear after the baby is born, least of all him. Cassio responds that he doesn't want her to disappear and that he is not worried about his life, but the life of his children. Mansueto tells Cassio that he doesn't even know if they are his children, and that he should get a paternity test as soon as possible, continuing to say that if they are not, they can send Gaia and the children away to live with her family and then he can find a new wife who can give him legitimate children and an heir. Cassio says that they are his children, end of the story and that anyone who claims otherwise will pay the price. Mansueto implores Cassio to remember who he is talking to, and he says that he does not forget, that he respects him, but to not destroy their relationship by saying something that he cannot forgive. He agrees.

Cassio then tells Faro to get rid of Andrea’s body.

#### *May 2018*

On the day of their 8th wedding anniversary, Cassio had made reservations for dinner at their favorite restaurant, for appearance's sake, but came home to find his housekeeper and cook Sybil drugged on the couch. He rushes upstairs and finds bloody pawprints on the landing and rushes to Simona’s bedroom. He wrenched Simona up so fast that she came awake with an ear-splitting scream, but Cassio thought it was the most beautiful sound in the world. He goes looking for Daniele and finds him in the corridor, a few steps from Gaia’s room, covered with blood. He asks Daniele what happened, and he tells Cassio that mom was asleep. He tells him to go to Sybil so that she may clean him up.

Cassio puts Simona back in her crib and goes into Gaia’s room and finds her dead in her bed wearing her wedding dress and her hair curled the same way as on their wedding day. She had slit her wrists with one draped over her chest, soaking the fabric of her dress, and the other one hanging limply down the side of the bed, dripping blood onto the hardwood floor that Loulou was licking up while sitting in a puddle of blood. He put the dog out of the room, shut the door, called his father, and informed him of her suicide.

Cassio then notices her suicide note beside Gaia on the bed. He went to the bed, closed her eyes, and picked up her letter:

After reading the letter Faro and his father appeared, he told Cassio to not blame himself, that it was what Gaia wanted, adding that the marriage was not what either of them wanted, that they were both thrown into it, and that he is not any guiltier than she is. Cassio asks them to deal with the mess, and that he has something to deal with.

Twenty minutes later, he knocked at his in-laws’ house. When they opened the door, he pointed his gun at them. “Let’s talk about Andrea and Gaia.” The next day, their maid found them dead in their bedroom. They’d shot themselves, unable to bear the death of their son and daughter. That was the official statement.

## Appearances

* *Bound by Love*
* *Sweet Temptation*