Mister Magic
GIOVANNI
She knew nothing. And that’s exactly the way I liked it.
I’d had a lot of women waiting for me in some way, shape or form since I’d hit the age of puberty. But this was different. She was different. Smart. Sophisticated. Katherine Sandaval was nobody’s fool, and even though she was nearly twice my age, that simple fact hadn’t stopped her from appealing to me.
I wanted her. I wanted her more than I’d ever wanted any con.
She was going to be my biggest con to date, maybe the most difficult job I’d ever pulled. Because this time, I wasn’t pretending to be someone I’d made up out of thin air. This time? I was playing the role of someone real.
The face staring back at me in the mirror at Hampton Grille’s bathroom sink wasn’t mine; it was Viktor Erikkson’s, a man who
