Ruined By Mafia
The others at the table watched with varying degrees of curiosity, their attention shifting between the gray-eyed man, Dante, and myself as they waited to see how this exchange would develop.
Then—he smirked. Not out of kindness or approval, not yet. But out of amusement, the kind that acknowledged an unexpected move in a game he had played countless times before. It wasn't acceptance, wasn't even respect necessarily, but it was recognition—acknowledgment that perhaps there was more here than initially assumed, that this particular piece on the board might move in ways worth observing.
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