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“My personal life is not your business, Miss Castle,” I said, finally removing her hand from my arm.
She gasped and frowned, hissing angrily as she took the chair behind the desk. I turned to see Matthew had not followed us inside.
“What is this? What do you want?”
“Haven’t you figured it out yet, Adrik? Matthew is nothing! He has no real pull anymore,” she said and snorted.
I stood frozen as I went over the hundreds of meetings we’d had over the past six months with Matthew Castle over CoreTech. His vague responses to questions. His noncommittal answers. Fuck. How did we miss this?
“What are you saying, exactly?” I asked, refusing to show her any emotion at all.
“I own CoreTech, silly,” she said, and batted her eyelashes at me in some horrific caricature of a demure young lady. But Missy was too hard and experienced to pretend that sort of innocence. Not that it would matter. The woman was repulsive to me.
“Okay. Then why would you have us meet with your brother and not you?”
“Well, I was hoping with these parties and dinners you or your brother would have broken down by now and proposed an arrangement that might include more than business. But you Volkov brothers are colder than even your reputation,” she explained, and I gritted my teeth.
“Had you simply asked, Missy, I would have told you there will be no merger between us. Not business and not personal. Volkov Industries wants to buy CoreTech. I am willing to pay the market price, but that is all I am offering,” I said.
“Well, it’s not enough!” she yelled. “Is it her? Is my former assistant the reason you’re being so dumb? It’s just pussy, Adrik. You can get that anywhere. Hell! I will even let you keep her. That is if you still want her after my brother is finished?—”
Her crazed eyes flashed, and for the first time since I was a child, I felt fear. Not for me. But for Zaika moya. What had this insane female done to my Sofia?
“What did you say?” I asked as fury and fear battled within me.
“I said my brother has her now, and he’s probably already left his mark. So, if it is sloppy seconds you want, Adrik, you can have them. After we are married and we merge Volkov Industries and Castle Corp,” she replied, cackling like a crazy witch.
I normally did not hit women. But I had never been as tempted to before then. I grabbed my phone and called Josef, telling him what was going on and asking for confirmation that Marat had Sofia.
“Where is Sofia?” I asked my head of security.
“She’s gone boss. She said she had to go to the restroom, but she never came back?—”
“FIND HER!” I bellowed into the phone.
I stalked over to where Missy sat behind the desk and took the chair by the arms, shaking it once, to get her attention. She giggled maniacally, then snapped her jaw shut when she finally looked at me.
“Where did your brother take her?” I asked between gritted teeth, hatred and fury boiling over inside me.
“Wouldn’t you like to know,” Missy started.
I shoved the chair back to the wall just as some of my guards filed in. One of whom was a woman. I stepped back and pointed to Adelita.
“She has three seconds to tell me where her brother is. If she does not comply, start cutting off her fingers until she does,” I said without emotion, even though my heart was beating wildly inside my chest.
If Matthew had hurt her—if he laid one hand on her precious head, I would tear him limb from limb. There was no coming back from this, I did not care how rich he was or how old his family name was. If my Sofia was in any way molested by him, I would wipe the Castles from the face of the earth. Anger filled me and I growled with it.
“No, no, no! Do not touch me!” shrieked Missy.
She looked afraid as Adelita approached dressed in all black, guns and knives holstered to her person. I’d seen her work before, and the woman was a master. I wish I could say I cared what she would do to Missy. But I didn’t.
“Fine, fine. I will tell you! Adrik, just stop her and I will tell you where they are. I can’t believe you are getting worked up over Sofia,” she said, shaking her head. Stupid woman. “She is nobody! Look, consider my offer first?—”
“Adelita,” I said, cutting off another insane tirade.
Time was wasting, and I nodded at one of my deadliest security guards as she stepped forward. Adelita was very well trained in martial arts, but her specialty was knives. I did not like to hurt women, but this was the twenty-first century, and I was not a fool.
In fact, I was a feminist. Women made war too. So, I made it my business to have my own female guards so they could handle cases such as this. Adelita grinned, nodding her head before she grabbed Missy by the hair.
