"You know I know him, don't you?" I ask Demyan, referring to Killian.
"Of course, he was the one who made it easy for me to get to you, without him it would have been a bit harder to make it."
"And do you trust him?" I ask him with feigned disinterest.
I take advantage of Killian's absence and drink the wine left in my glass.
Suck it, asshole.
"See the scar on his face, milaya? He earned it protecting me."
"And that already makes him a saint of your devotion?"
"He has a brilliant mind," he replies, "and I've been able to use it to my advantage. Killian is too smart for business. Besides, I'm not an i***t, milaya, I made sure that everything he told me about his life was real. That move he made on his brother was fantastic, don't you think?"
"Of course it was."
Because almost killi
