The word rips out of me so loud a flock of birds scatter from the trees above. My legs go weak, my back hitting the nearest tree trunk as I stare at him like he just grew two heads.The Don. The actual Don.Not just some random mafia guy, not some middle rank thug who kills for fun. The top. The very top of it all.“You are joking right? This is some sick joke you are playing on me because I am pissed about the sex thing.” I stammer, my hands shaking as I push them through my hair.“Does this look like a joke to you?” he growls, gesturing to the wreck of a car, the gunshots still ringing faintly in my ears, the mud caked up to his knees.Oh god. Oh god oh god.“So all those men, the warehouse, the guy you tortured, the bullet you took for me, that was all– you are the top?” I ask, my voice cracking on every single word.“Yes.” he says simply, like he just told me his favourite colour again.I want to scream, I want to cry, I want to punch him square in that stupid perfect jaw of his.
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