What I’m struggling to make sense of is Matvei himself. He explained to me why he was doing this; he and/or his shadowy bosses have their own reasons for wanting Raymond six feet under. But that’s something else I can’t stop thinking: It feels like there’s more to it.
Why is he doing this for me?
He doesn’t owe me a damn thing. We’ve known each other for what, not even two months? Half of that I spent pretending he didn’t exist.
He, on the other hand, has literally taken a knife in the ribs on my behalf. He could’ve walked away after the alley and called it square and no one in the world could blame him.
Instead, he keeps showing up.
There’s something about the way he moves through the world that makes me want to crawl inside his coat pocket and live there. He’s not careful with himse
