"Scared?"Yes.He knew this couldn't be easy for her so he let it go."I guess I'll see you this weekend, then. Take care and good luck with your busines...s." He kept his tone light, not wanting to put any pressure on her. A sudden thought had him interrupting before she could speak."Oh, by the way, you left your mask at the apartment."I know. And the neck piece too. She hung up.He got it.Thursday came and went. Friday, though, crept up on him with cat's paws and pounced on him when he got home.He. " Aw, fuck. I'm sorry." She tried to hug him."He gave me a fifty. Said pretty much what you just said."Jazz froze."He took the money away later. Said I'd broken the law. He'd call thepolice. He'd call my father. He'd rape my mother. That he'd put me ina dress and sell me on street corners."She touched him on the shoulder.Kinny pulled away but then relented. "You didn't know." Yeah, but I should have known. Was it the same bastard who got Joi?"Kinny pulled back, surprised. "Joi was molested?". “But I also think you’re very vulnerable. You said you felt safe with me. I like that and I don’t want to blow that. I seriously doubt if you would have shared half of what you have if you didn’t feel safe with me. But you don’t have to decide anything. Not right now. Why don’t you let me take you to lunch? Then you take it one step at a time. We take it one step at a time. And neither one of us does anything we don’t feel comfortable with.” I waited for her to nod and then started the engine. I explained that this would probably be a short assignment, but she would be helpful in the early stages, especially with the non-ganger couple we had captured and the Sharks. She was welcome to try and reach the ninos, but they were crazy fanatics and were probably a lost cause.“What did these people do?”“They are assassins hired to kill me. I wasn’t exactly fair about turning the tables, but I will live longer that way.”“That is something I had figured out about you. Okay, who are they?”“The.