
“hey how do we show that this cop (who btw was being reprimanded for police brutality but that’s chill i guess) infiltrated and reached the highest ranks of the mafia under his actual identity?”
…
FIVE YEARS LATER
“okay but how do we justify the romance when this man only joined the mafia because he swore revenge over the death of his mother and also he had to watch his (plot device of a) cop friend traumatically die in front of him?”
…
DRUNK SEX AND THREE YEARS LATER

I’m still trying to figure out how old they’re supposed to be then. In the beginning they were 23 and 27 if I remember correctly, so does that mean that 9 years later (minor spoiler, theres another time skip in chapter 23) they are in their early to mid thirties? Or those ages shown in the beginning from a flash forward?
Hmm?
Basically pwp cause wtf is with thay atrocious amount of time skips