"Of course it is," I said with a smile. "So, at last, your duties as master and lord of the universe, owner and boss of a mafia, have given you free time."
"Oh, beautiful, no doubt I missed your viperous tongue and that quickness to release poison very much."
Shrewdly, he walked and came to where I stood, and with a naturalness that surprised me, he gave me a chaste kiss on the lips that for a moment left me out of focus.
I didn't expect that kind of sweetness from a man who was cruel.
"What the hell are you reading?" he asked very curiously.
"The Secret of the Wolf," I replied after showing him the cover of the book. "It's a paranormal romance book that's selling like hotcakes and that I'm trying to study so that, at some point, I can understand how the market is evolving so that I
