I'm not sure if Michael loved anyone. It comes through more clearly in the book, but he's an extreme rationalist (and quite a narcissist). Apollonia may have been "loved" by him as an ideal of the mafia woman, just as Kay was an ideal of the respectable woman. The relationships would look very different, but only because men and women played different roles in the two worlds.


"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."