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She wants me as I am.
“My world isn’t a pretty place,” I say. “It gets darker the deeper you go, and once you step in and work with my type of people, you’ll never be the same. You’ll start reading people like you read books—looking in between the lines for their lies and their secrets, and you’ll start to realize that they’re never who they say they are. It might ruin you.”
“On the first night we met, I told you I was already ruined…” She pauses. “I meant that.”
I smile, but I don’t say anything else.
“I don’t think you could leave your world if you tried anyway.” She starts talking again. “I definitely can’t see you trading it in for Wall Street or a nine to five.”
“You’re wrong,” I say, cupping her face in my hands, feeling the beta-male shit seconds away from slipping from my lips. “I’d do it if it was the only way to keep you.”
“Do you really mean that?”
“I promise that.” I run my fingers through her hair. “I would give it all up for you. If that’s what you want.”
“I don’t,” she says. “I want you to share it with me. I want to keep building our legacy.”
“Our legacy?” I smile, pressing my lips against hers. “I wasn’t aware that’s what we were doing.”
“Well, now you know.”
“You are aware that this means you’ll be pursuing a life of illegal crime, right?”
“Yes,” she says, nodding. “I also know that if we ever get caught, you’ll do all the prison time and leave me out of it.”
“I will…” I laugh and move down to the floor, pulling her on top of me. “After we fuck, let’s get to work…”
End of Episode #3