“I can’t stay.”

Those words caused your confusion to turn into anger. Why couldn’t he stay? He just got here and had a bullet wound in his shoulder. It was far safer-

“They could come looking for me here. And if they knew you’d been hiding me at your place, we might both end up dead.” He explained, seeing you about to protest as he held his bunched up hoodie to his shoulder. You’d never seen a mafia right-hand in such ordinary clothes.

The mafia had wanted you to marry one of their ‘becoming’ leaders, which you weren’t happy with. Riki seemed to have one priority over his job as the right-hand: you. That’s why he traded secret information to the opposing crime group so they’d come over to the quarters and cause a distraction - one where Riki let you escape.

One problem now: they were after him for betrayal, and they wanted him dead.