I go up to his face, looking him square in his angry green eyes, watching the little crease between his brows form, I nearly smoothed it out with my finger tips, instead I push myself forward so my torso is across the desk and whisper so the message is just for him, “Swear on it.”He pulled back, surprise flickering through his eyes. Smug and satisfied that I’d shaken him as much as he hoped to shake me, I straighten, brushing the wrinkles out of my shirt as I pull back.While he watches me like I’m some type of specimen that landed on earth in a weird pod– strange, that’s exactly how I feel about him.He’s scary, but he doesn’t know how to navigate things he doesn’t understand, that’s the difference between us, he waits, understands, learns, then strikes. I like to pride myself with a different level of living.I strike, then learn after that I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. But I must be doing something right if I’ve survived twenty four years like this.I wink at him, and w
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