Two Can Play
"Forget everything you think you know about the world, girl. This island is mine. This is my turf. No one takes a step out here without my word, and no one leaves without my word. Give my name to whoever you like. Let them come. Let them swim the whole ocean, and I will stand on my own dock and watch them go under. Not even the president of this country could do a single thing about your detention. Prepare your mind to serve your sentence."
At the end of it, I opened my mouth to answer him, and nothing came out. Because I had only been bluffing, and the fear was now at my neck. My mother was the only soul on the whole earth who had ever heard the name Emerson Gath from me, and I had not give