“I’m assuming you’re new here,” I tell her, bending my neck so my lips graze her ear, “so I won’t fault you for what you can’t possibly understand. But I think you’ll learn quickly, little thief, that there isn’t anything on this island I can’t do. If I want you as my assistant, then you’ll be my assistant. If I want you to lie back on my desk and spread your thighs so I can reacquaint myself with the sweet, sodden paradise between them, you’ll do that too.”
