““That’s how we met.” Oli poured more sake into our tiny cups. “He spent hours with me stretched out beneath him like an offering in this tiny shop he had on St. Mark’s Place. I insisted that he keep working, even though I’d come in so late, and he agreed after I offered to pay him double.” “I bet he would have done it without the bribe.” Oli smiled, but his eyes were faraway. “He ended up not accepting the money even though he kept working after the shop closed,””
