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“Care to share it with us?”
“Not really.”
Fury crosses his face as he takes a huge sip from his glass and places it on the table with a loud thud as it rattles soundly. Grandpa whistles under his breath.
Let’s just say no one likes to get on Dad’s bad side. Uncle Lucian might be ruthless and vicious, but my dad?
He can be very cruel if he wants to. How else would he have pulled a mafia princess?
“Not really? Did you hear him, Dad? Not really.” Grandpa shakes his head at me, doing the cutting motion over his neck. “When your decisions affect the family, you have to give appropriate answers.” He exhales a heavy breath. “Do you understand that this is going to get bloody? My goddaughter is pregnant with my grandson, but she plans to marry my nephew. You’re doing nothing to explain yourself or rectify the situation. ‘Not really’ is not good enough of an answer, Florian.” Although he keeps his voice even, anger drips from his every word, and I’m starting to think I’m going to get my ass kicked again tonight.
“She won’t marry him, Dad. I won’t allow it, and once I do what needs to be done, everything is going to be okay.”
“Nothing is going to be okay now, son. You think you can get Jimena pregnant without consequences? Have you met her family?”
“All right, Dad.” I straighten up, my voice becoming harsher than appropriate, considering who I’m talking to. “Enough. I’m not a kid.”
“Ah, grandson. Do you want to die or something?” Grandpa mutters, reaching for Dad’s glass and quickly finishing it as Dad moves toward me. I half expect him to punch me in the face for all the disrespect. “Jacob, let me remind you that we don’t believe in violence in this family.”
Everything inside me tenses, so I freeze in surprise when my dad hugs me, and instant relief washes over me. No matter how old you are…you don’t want your parents to kick your ass, and truth be told…can someone be on my fucking side for once? “I love you, son.”
“I love you too, Dad.”
He squeezes me tighter in his hold. “I raised a good man, so if you do something, you have your reasons. I’ll trust your judgment and will be on your side despite all the losses we will face. Nothing is more important to me than my family.”
Up until this moment I didn’t know how much I needed to hear these words from him. When I chose Jimena as mine, I knew her family would take it the hardest. It was inevitable.
But my family…having my back is one thing. But to truly accept and love me and choosing me because of that is quite another.
Losing my father’s respect would have been harder than Uncle Lucian’s. Despite my godfather having a special place in my life, heart, and soul…no one can top Dad for me.
He leans back and lightly slaps me on the cheek, making me laugh. “But if you ever use that tone with me again, I’ll have to show you that your grandpa is not the only one who can whoop someone’s ass.”
My phone vibrates in my pocket, snapping me out of my thoughts, and I take it out, smirking at the message flashing on the display. It’s from our group chat, and Santiago hasn’t left yet. We hate all this bullshit, but we needed one in order to update each other on the club and some other major things. We rarely use it because, who has the time?
Just a reminder. We all own a club together. We have equal shares in it. What are we going to do about it?
We can’t throw it away in the garden, that’s for sure.
I expected a more elaborate answer.
Why bother with elaborate answers if we don’t decide anything?
Octavius.
Remi.
Someone might want to leave the club.
Then that someone needs to sell his shares to us.
We both know he is not going to sell them to us. And we have a rule…
We all own equal shares, or the club doesn’t exist.
What is it going to be, Santiago?
He won’t sell his share to anyone. Right?
