Ruthless Creatures by J.T. Geissinger

in a bit of a state.”
“A state? You left like you were being chased by a horde
of soul-eating demons! And you wouldn’t tell me what the hell
was going on! What happened?”
I think for a moment, take a sip of my wine, and decide
just to go ahead and jump in.
“A mafia assassin named Viktor came to the house to kill
me.”
Silence.
“Well, first he was supposed to get information from me
about David—”
“David?”
“His name’s really Damon, by the way. He was in the
mafia, too. Long story. I’ll circle back. So the assassin shows
up and was just about to shoot me when Kage bursts in and
shoots him instead. Finally, I have some good luck. Then my
luck turns to shit again because I find out Kage was supposed
to do Viktor’s job originally, but got distracted by my dazzling
vagina.”
I pause to draw a breath. “You still there?”
“Just getting the popcorn. Keep talking.”
She never misses a beat, this girl. She should run for
President. The country would be whipped into shape in no
time.
“So Kage disobeyed a direct order from his boss, Max,
who was David’s boss, too, before David embezzled one
hundred million dollars from him and turned state’s evidence
so the feds would give him a new identity so he could quit the
mafia and move away.”
“That cheapskate had a hundred million bucks the whole
time you were with him?”
She’s outraged about the money. I have to wonder at her
priorities.