The Mafia Boss’s Tiny Trouble
"Do you actually want me to be afraid of you? Because I could try, if that's the vibe you're going for. I don't think I'd be very good at it, but I could give it a shot."
The question caught him off guard. For a second, he actually thought about it instead of just shutting her down.
"No," he admitted. "I don't want that."
"Good, because I wouldn't have been able to pull it off anyway." Mia went back to the bottle, checking the temperature on her wrist. "For what it's worth, 'Boss' isn't really about you. It's about the fact that you expect everyone to just fold the second you use that tone, and I find it way more interesting to see what happens when someone doesn't."