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Fair enough. It was unfair of me to expect her to be part of something she didn’t even know existed. This is exactly why I didn’t want us to move into this mansion. It held too many secrets. My apartment was not any better. I may have kept myself away from my family’s illicit businesses but I wasn’t a saint myself.

I had wanted to own a home with her, a place that would be completely rid of anything I didn’t want her to know. I could pretend to be a legitimate businessman for six months. But now that we were here, everything had changed.

I tried to smooth it over nonetheless. “The cops would never come after you.”

“But your enemies would. That’s why you’re training me. I don’t want to die for something I don’t even know. It’s not fair.” She hissed.

Since when was I unable to get out of a confrontation? She was looking at me with those clear, innocent eyes and everyting I wanted to say, every lie I had made up vanished. I couldn’t stand the thought of making her sadder than she alr