All Chapters of They Called Me a Liar, but the Don Spoils Me Rotten: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

The Colombian rainforest was hot, humid, and dangerous.After each firefight, Arthur holed up in the safe house and sent one encrypted email after another to New York.Daisy's parting words kept circling in his mind.He'd been too full of himself.There would always be plenty of time, he'd thought, and marriage would only tie him down.He also had insecurities he'd never admit to anyone.Angela was so strong that he felt... he wasn't good enough for her.He'd hidden that insecurity by tearing her down with cruel words.Now he decided to sweet-talk her.He asked if she wanted to try barbecue in Bogotá or watch the sun set over the Caribbean...But she didn't answer a single one.A few months later, word finally came from the Greco family.Anthony shouted over the phone for him to get his ass back to New York immediately.Angela was getting married, he said, and every family needed to send someone to the wedding.His father sounded anxious too.But Arthur laughed.He thought Angela was t

For a while, I didn't hear anything about Arthur.When I finally did, Carlos only mentioned it in passing.Victor had sent Arthur to Mexico to take over the most chaotic stretch of the border.The whole Greco family had been forced to move along with him.People died there every day.He probably wouldn't see New York again for the rest of his life.Maybe that was for the best.After the reckless things he'd said that day, staying in New York would have gotten him killed sooner or later.Carlos said that before leaving, Arthur had someone deliver several crates of brass bullets that had long since gone out of production. He said they were my favorite.Arthur's intentions clearly crossed a line, so Carlos refused the delivery outright.I never found out who let it slip.But word that Arthur had hunted down gear to win me over reached Victor's ears.That week, a blizzard hit New York.Victor canceled all his international meetings and went down to the underground workshop to craft an enti