The arm around my waist tightens. “You could say that.”
“And that’s why you don’t want us to be together?”
“Payton,” his voice rumbles through me. “I want to be together. That’s not the problem.”
“It’s your enemies,” I repeat what he’d said earlier.
“That’s right. It’s not safe to be associated with me.”
“What does that mean for me?” I hate how meek I sound. But I need to know where I stand.
“I’m trying to figure that out.”
“Will you tell me more about what you do?”
“Not yet,” he answers truthfully.
“I don’t really know what mobster means,” I admit.
“Hmm,” he hums. “Why’d you use it?”
I chew on the inside of my cheek, not waiting to snitch on my boss, but if she knows enough about Nero to use it, then maybe it’s not some big secret.
Or maybe she’s in that world too?
His thumb
