JACKIE
Flowers?
Roses in the winter?Roses so crimson that they are redder than wine. Who sent roses so red in the winter? The question was answered very quickly. It was Dante. It could only be Dante. She had only gotten involved with the mafia boss to edge further into the organization. This is what she told herself when the bouquet and the note written in scrawled writing, saying, For Jackie, was delivered at her job. This was what she told herself when her heart leapt, a bird whose eager wings she fought to clip with these reminders. Caution was the better part of any emprise.Yaw, her colleague at work, had saucers for eyes when he saw the flowers. 'What?'He raised both hands in immediate capitulation. 'I did not know you had a secret admirer.' His accent was heavy with that unusual sweetness she had not quite gotten used to. Saccharine, because every word he uttered sounded like seduction.
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