[IVAN]
“Papa, can I come with you, please?”
I pause on my footsteps and turn around to find my little daughter pleading with me with her puppy dog eyes. This is so not fair. She knows I can’t fight it. But despite being aware of her clever plan, I can’t help but succumb.
I squat down and give her a gentle smile. “Papa would love nothing more than that,” that’s a lie, but not entirely. I would love to take my daughter places. I would love to show her around. But my profession doesn’t exactly allow me to be so open about it to my family. It took me months to explain everything to Ana. I wonder how long it would take for me to tell my daughter that her daddy isn’t some good man who does a nine-to-five job, but rather a mafia boss whose life is at stake every day.
However, despite the comm
