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Amaar jerked back, glaring across the room at Peter.
Damn it.
In a way, it made sense that it would be Peter. All those years ago, it had been the chancellor who recommended him to Daar. He’d made the mistake of assuming that because Peter had been faithful all these years that he was Daar’s man.
The chancellor must have set this up back then when Peter was a young man.
All this time and Daar had let his demise in with his own hand.
“What is this about, Peter?” Daar asked. He glanced at the other man. This one he recognized as one of the chancellor’s men.
Peter sighed and pocketed his phone. “I’m here to offer Amaar a new job. Please put your weapons down. We have you surrounded and outnumbered.”
As if that were a signal, figures stepped into the doorways around them. If Daar were to look behind them, he was certain there would be more.
“Amaar?” Daar asked.
“Fuck you, you piece of shit,” Amaar snarled.
Daar put a hand on the young man’s shoulder.
Peter shoved a hand back over his short hair. “I didn’t want you to find out.”
“Your plan was to steal Amaar away, then what? Come back to me and tell me you ran into trouble? Carry on as if none of this happened?”
Peter met Daar’s gaze and nodded. “Yeah. Something like that.”
Daar snorted.
“This business between you and the chancellor is a big misunderstanding,” Peter said. “I’m doing you a favor trying to untangle it. But he wants Amaar.”
Amaar was practically vibrating with rage. “Seriously? You expect us to believe that?”
“Seriously.” Peter gestured behind him. “I’m going to prove to the chancellor. You wait and see. All I was supposed to do was offer Amaar a job. I can tell the chancellor he said no and we all forget this little meeting happened.”
“What of the laptop? And Saaina?” Daar wasn’t a fool. Those were two pieces he could not allow to fall into enemy hands.
Was there a person in his life the chancellor did not have their hooks in?
Robin.
“That wasn’t me. Saaina told Daar about the laptop a long time ago to save her own skin.”
“And the men you supposedly roughed up for intel?”
Peter glanced at the man behind him. “Yeah, that was all the chancellor’s plan. Look, the laptop and Saaina come with me as evidence to back up my story and we work this out,” Peter said.
“No.” Daar shook his head. “No, that’s not how this is going to happen.”
Peter leveled a hard stare at Daar. “All due respect, sir? It’s not your decision anymore. I don’t have a decision in this. We do it this way or we’re all going to be sorry.”
“I wasn’t aware I’d empowered you to make decisions on my behalf.”
He shook his head and took a step toward Daar. The men on either side of him shifted, some weapons coming up.
Daar held up a hand, urging the men to stay their hands.
Peter pressed his free hand to his chest. “This is spinning out of control. I can put a stop to it.”
