My mind wanders to the zoo. Gabriel took Harry and me there the day after his big reveal. The dayafter he stripped me naked and made me come several times in his anti-bug room, as a matter of fact. Iwouldn’t have expected him to be able to transition so easily between Gabriel the mob boss andGabriel the father, but he was all gentle smiles and jokes at the zoo.
At the elephant enclosure, he pretended his arm was a trunk, to Harry’s delight. At the tiger pen, hepinched my butt and then wrapped his arm around my waist and drew me close. And I forgot all aboutthe day before. Forgot my doubts, my worries, my fears. For one afternoon, Gabriel and Harry and I
were just a normal family at the zoo, and when I came back to earth at the mansion’s gates, I felt astab of sorrow that
