“Tell me what you’ve been doing, and I’ll tell you,” he offers. Do I really want to know? I’m not sure I’ll be able to take hearing him tell me about him being with a woman.

“You first,” I say after a beat. I guess I’m a masochist.

“I wasn’t lying. I don’t do anything. Not since—” He flicks a glance my way.

“You don’t do anything?” I lick my lips. “You don’t touch yourself, Uncle Gilly?”

“God damn it, Carina!” he shouts. Okay. Maybe I took it a bit too far. “Now you. Spill.”

“You didn’t really answer mine, so I don’t have to tell you shit.”

“I told you.” He sighs.

I stare at him for a long moment, and it hits me. “You’re serious?” Gilly is always so calm and disciplined. At least that’s what I remember him as. Until now. He’s snapped. “You’re punishing yourself, aren’t you?” He’s mad that he wants me.

I guess I’m not the only masochist. I want to push for more, but I leave it for now. Gilly has to choose where he stands. He’s fighting his own inner battle. I can’t make him choose me. I wouldn’t want to.

“Your turn.”

“You can’t get mad.” I chew on my bottom lip. I’m already on very thin ice. I’m not sure telling him what I’ve gotten myself into right now is the best idea. I have no idea how he’s going to react. Especially when he hears it involves Falco.

“I couldn’t get madder.”

I don’t speak for a long moment. He pins me with a hard look in the rearview mirror. “Tell me.” I come undone at the gentleness of his tone. The words spill past my lips.

I give it all to him. Well, all that really applies to what’s happening now. Magic, Ocean, and I have done small things to test the waters here or there, such as stealing drones or whatnot, but I don’t go into those tiny details.

“And what did you think you were going to do tonight? Your little drone girl and computer whiz couldn’t protect you inside that club.”

“I was going to show him what it meant to play with a Palermo.”

Gilly shakes his head.

“He came into my home and tried to threaten me,” I hiss.

“You should have told me. I would have handled it.”

“Tell you? Why the hell would I do that?”

“Because I can protect you!” he shouts. It makes me jump. I’m not used to him exploding, but that doesn’t stop me from doing it right back.

“You don’t protect me, Gilly! You hurt me. Don’t you get that?” The words are out of my mouth before I can really think about what I’m saying.

“Carina, I–”