Captive of My Mafia Crush
I frown as I do, my mind elsewhere.
“What’s up, deep-thought Bambi?” Frankie asks, turning his head to study me. “You’re not usually so serious.”
“Just…thinking,” I muse, my eyes going a bit far-away. “Everyone was so…shocked that I was nice to Calvin.”
“Calvin?”
“The hostage,” I say, my voice far-off. “Even he was. Like it was…totally unheard of to be kind to someone like that.”
“Because it is, Bambs,” Frankie says, reaching out and putting a kind hand on my arm. “Nobody…does shit like that. It’s an unnecessary risk – plus it humanizes your captive, makes it very hard to…take necessary steps, if they come to pass.”