For weeks Danny has kept his attachment to Sam secret, he holds it in his heart, guards it like it is a precious gem he couldn't afford to lose.

But Mary knows him so well. She can read him like an opened book and it is written all over his face anyway.

"You should tell her," she says.

Danny isn't looking at her because his hazel eyes are following Sam's form sliding across the casino floor. Danny looks like a man in love, Mary thinks.

"She might leave. I don't want her to."

"She is leaving though, right? Four months, remember? That's how long she said she would stay. May as well tell her how you feel."

And Danny does remember because he has kept track, counted down the numbers of weeks and if Sam keeps her words, she would be gone next month. The idea doesn't sit well with him. It makes his heart hurt a little too much. He is sure the Casino would feel empty without her in it. Or maybe it's just him that would feel empty without her around, without her smiles and her laughs. He would miss her terribly.

"She told me not to get attached," he tells Mary as he turns to face his best friend.

She offers him a sad, sad smile and pats his shoulder. "But you didn't listen, did you, Danny?"

The question makes him laugh. No, he didn't. Because it was already too late, he was already far too gone, far too attached to her.

Sam left her prints on him. She marked him, scratched him, pierced him, there and then, and he smiled the entire time. He can't go back from that, doesn't want to. He is certain he is asking for a heartbreak from Sam, he is asking for her to tear him in half but Sam drives him completely mental and he's honestly so fond of the sound of her laugh, the sound of happiness and madness when she's just herself around him.

It'll probably end bad. It'll be messy and ugly. Mike adores Sam but says she is trouble. However, just because you know the end doesn't mean you're not allowed to enjoy the ride before it all crashes down and ends up in ashes.

Danny is willing to take the risk. Sam is worth the effort and the pain in the end.