“I will?”
The woman she knew to be Christie sighed. “Yeah. You’ll have more choices. It will be easier for you.” She didn’t like the sound of that. Christie didn’t have choices? Before she could even question the way the other woman had phrased that, Christie wrinkled her nose. “I need to stop explaining it like that. Mundo, my mate, says it makes him sound like a wife beater or something. Which he isn’t. I-It’s just, I used to be a dentist who worked for the DoJ. A gang thought they could use me as their personal messenger. They kidnapped me, nearly killed Mundo to get to me, and now, Mundo’s so terrified that someone else will try again, he’ll only let me go private practice.”
Toni’s eyes flared wide at the blasé way Christie had mentioned kidnapping, attempted murder, and gang messeng
