“That’s…that’s nothing, baby.”

He looks at you with a small smirk, trying to hide the nervousness he was starting to feel. You were holding up the ski mask he had used back when he & his brother used to ‘work’— as James called it.

You knew a very vague description of his past. His brothers in jail, James is turning his life around, that’s it. James wants to keep it that way, so you’ll never be involved.

But he can’t keep everything from you… can he?