When the crowd died down, Zeus spoke up. “You better get out of here while you still can.” Boaz nodded, and Zeus turned to me. “Luca, it was good to meet you. Keep my man here honest, all right?”
I smiled at him. I liked Zeus. “I’ll see what I can do.”
Boaz led me toward the door with his hand on my lower back. Suddenly, his name was shouted by a rowdy crowd at the corner of the bar. We both turned, and I saw Boaz’s “boys” as Zeus named them. These were males, but the largest of the species, undoubtedly. One of them looked like a sumo wrestler, except more Hawaiian than Asian. Another was blond and beefy, standing eye-to-eye with Boaz, who was easily six and a half feet. There were a third, fourth, and fifth of the group. Two of them had mocha skin and the same face, and the other was no
