the guy next door. Nice and kind.” “Lily, I’m a Made Man. Don’t make me into a hero that I’m not. I’m not kind or nice.” “You are to me,” she said lightly. Her blue eyes were far too trusting. She didn’t know the things I’d been thinking about her, most of them hadn’t been nice. I wanted to do so many dirty things to her, she wouldn’t even understand half of them, and that was why I needed to keep my distance. Maybe she looked grown up, but she was still too young, too innocent.
