“I’ll give you 5,000 dollars if you serve me in russian,” laughed the mafia boss at the waitress…

his sentence. Their relationship defied simple categorization, not quite friendship and beyond business, yet bound by experiences too profound to abandon. You could have disappeared with the money, Victor observed during one visit, his face thinner but his eyes still sharp with intelligence.

Instead, you built something lasting from the wreckage of continue reading …