Chapter 50

As I fall into the routines of the Lippert house I’m surprised to find that I’m quickly bored by them. Life at my home with David and Janeen was also boring- but they’re just normal people. A little of me, I think, expected everyday gang life to be more exciting.

It’s not that the house is empty, really. Every day starts with a flurry

of activity. Breakfast in the kitchen is a big affair, with everyone rushing through. Kent’s top guys – mostly older gentlemen – drink their tiny glasses of espresso at a table in the corner, bantering.

Lower–level guys, dressed in thousand–dollar sweatsuits, run briskly through, reporting and getting new orders.

Guards are all around – watching everything, but mostly wishing, I think, that they were important enough to be included with the others. If they work hard enough, though, they can level up.

As the day passes, everyone spreads out to do their work. Daniel goes out a lot to school, mostly, wrapping up his spring

semester. I’ve been expressly forbidden to go out with him, to

school or anywhere else. Apparently, I’m still a kidnapping target.

Kent has told the Mafia world that I’m out there, but until he locks

his

Fiona had come into the house just as he was leaving. Seeing my sad face, she wrapped an arm around my shoulders, her voice full of pity.

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stuck in this house. May as well dress yourself

something to do,” I moaned, slumping my shoulders forward in misery. “It’s so boring here.”

on in this house at all times, it’s just that I’m…not

– the guards, the captains,

polite to me. They smile at me when

hall. But no one really talks to me, even if I try. I get the

expressly forbade

is Fiona, and she’s very sweet, but we don’t have

lot in common.

and has enough bite in her wit to keep from being boring. She’s incredibly sexy, but she spends most of her day building and maintaining

her nails done. When she’s in the house, she’s doing aerobics, or facials and beauty treatments,

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swept me up in her world a bit. I think she likes it, giving me a whole master’s course in makeup and hair care that I never,

would have even thought about before she came

never say it to her. For instance, once, her Botox

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