"You people are crazy." I shook my head, trying to make sense of what he was saying. Before now, I was just a regular college Stundent who was missing his first love. How did I end myself in the mafia,? What happened next was really insane. Horrendously insane.

Mathew said it bluntly: "This is reality." You had a pampered existence at Nevada, what with your posh dorm room and prestigious education. But you've had to grow up and join the rest of us in the real world.

I ignored my first outrage at the insult. The next thing I knew, I was completely and utterly furious. I felt like he...