Effie and I had known each other for years. We’re only a couple years apart, and our fathers run in the same circles. Those circles being the rich and dirty criminal underworld. But it wasn’t until we graduated high school a few years ago that we really started spending time together as more than two crime bosses’ kids. I had my brothers of course, but there was something freeing about spending time with another person who knew what it was like to wake up in the middle of the night to gunshots and eat breakfast to the smell of bleach the next morning.
