Canary

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>We were on the front lines in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>that</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> world the mafia world. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>There was nothing soft or glamorous about it. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Who you were before no longer mattered. Names didn't exist. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I joined anyway. I had no other choice because they took my sister. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Join. Find her. Try and make it out alive. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Then </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>he</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> won me in a poker game. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I hated him instantly thinking he was like my other bosses before him. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>He wasn't. He was </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>worse</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>He wasn't just cold. He was dead inside. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>It didn't matter that he was gorgeous. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>He was the most lethal </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>thing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> I'd ever met. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>He was also the only person who could keep me alive if he didn't kill me himself.  </span></p><p><br></p><pre spellcheck=false></pre>