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“Done.”
I stepped back as if to leave, but Andraius stayed me with a lift of his hands.
Glancing at Nerine, he said, “Since you don’t like change, let me give you a heads-up.”
“What is that?”
“As of tonight, you’ll have a new security team.”
“What?” Her voice came out a bit louder than acceptable, garnering a glance or two from the people milling about around us. “That’s not a heads-up.”
The way she shifted, I had no doubt she wanted to peer in my direction. I kept my attention on the crowd through the open doors of the dining room, even though I could see everything happening between Andraius and Nerine in my periphery.
“I didn’t have to tell you at all. You could have just had a new group watching you.”
“They won’t tell you anything different than your current spies say.”
Did she actually believe that Theios Alex would assign anyone to her that would invade her privacy? He loved her as if she were his daughter.
No, she had a right to her concerns. In the group were some of the traitors, Andraius’s men, he’d sprinkled into the mix. They’d rat out their own mothers.
Every single man from the originals protecting her was loyal only to her. They’d keep any secret she wanted them to keep. But weeding out who she could trust would have taken her time, and the thought of going through that again probably gave her anxiety.
God. We’d fucked up, letting her believe she had no one. And it just wasn’t fair to expect Theios Alex to pick up our slack and keep our secrets.
“Then you don’t have anything to worry about. Do you?”
“Fine. Do what you want.”
“I will. Theo, she is all yours.”
Immediately, she whirled in my direction. Her dark blue eyes bored into mine. A storm of emotion swam in her irises. Was it surprise or rage, or worry? Or maybe betrayal?
Keeping my expression locked down as we stared at each other, I inclined my head as any support staff would do. She furrowed her brow and shifted back to Andraius.
“Why would you put your top enforcer on me? Isn’t he needed to do you dirty work in Europe?”
So she’d kept tabs on me.
“I have my reasons.” Andraius lifted the tumbler of scotch he held in his hands and took a sip. “And you have two.”
“Two what?”
“Two enforcers. Theo and Xander. They will be responsible for you, day and night.”
She stiffened, narrowing her gaze. “And where will you be? Let me guess, with your whores.”
Andraius tightened his grasp on his glass, jerked his other hand as if to strike her, thought better of it, and slid his palm into his pants pocket.
“I plan to do my job by putting the family’s interests first. As you are going to do by keeping Nyx Drakos happy.”
“As if you’d know anything about putting family first.”
Ignoring her jab, he taunted, “You won’t be able to hide anything from me now, Nerine.”
“Let me repeat, do what you want.” Nerine turned and stalked away from us.
I nodded to Robert Lavinos, the head of Andraius’s security, who came into view. He followed Andraius as he strolled toward a group he wanted to meet, and then I followed Nerine.
