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“That’s not true. I won’t let you talk about me like that before the men.”
“Or what? Will you smack me around as you do in front of Robert? Go right ahead. I doubt these men will take kindly to that type of treatment of the true Angelos.”
“I’m warning you.”
“Remember when I told you that you can’t do anything more to me than you’ve already done? Well, fuck you. I am done with you. I am done with everyone. Go to hell.”
Nerine shoved between Xander and me and then turned to the group of soldiers. She scanned all of their faces, pure resignation in her eyes as if she expected an end of some kind.
“Listen up. This boss of yours. The one that keeps everyone nice and comfortable in wealth stolen from everything Papa built. He’s sterile, and his dick doesn’t work half the time. I hate his fucking guts. The kid that woman is carrying isn’t his. And I will never let him claim that baby as an Angelos.” She closed her eyes for a moment, taking a deep breath. “If you find me dead by morning, know the bastard in there with his whore did it. And you know what? I’m not afraid. He beat the fear out of me long ago.”
She smiled and laughed, shaking her head, and just as fast her face grew hard and angry. “Besides, my blood is the only way his claim is legitimate, and I will never give him a child. Never. I have no more fucks left to give. I am just done. Do you hear me? I am fucking done. That woman will not be in my house when I return, or I will kill her myself. I forgot whose daughter I was, but not anymore. He’s called me a cold venom-filled bitch so many times. He’s about to learn what kind of cold-hearted, evil viper bitch I can be.”
She wiped the tears from her face, lifted her chin to look each of us standing before her in the eyes, and then she shot Andraius the most hate-filled glare I’d ever seen her give anyone.
“I want a fucking divorce. You piece of shit.” Turning, she walked straight past us in the direction of the corridor leading to the back of the compound.
Silence filled the space as the weight of her grief and words descended on all of us.
Then, Andraius roared, “Come back here, Nerine.”
He charged toward the door, ready to follow her. However, before he could take one step outside of his room, in unison, all the soldiers blocked his path.
“Get out of my way. That’s an order.”
“You disrespected the Angelos Angel in the worst way,” Clay said. “Everyone knows the legacy of that gown. She has a right to her upset. Leave her alone.”
“I’m in charge. You do as I say. Move.”
At that moment, Stefano, Nerine’s original head of security, stepped forward, blocking Andraius from a different side. “You will never disrespect her again.”
“Xander, get your men out of my way. I need to discipline my wife.”
Before I could stop him, Xander grabbed Andraius by the throat. “Do you mean like this? Isn’t this how you held her up, nearly suffocated her, and left your fingerprints dug deep into her delicate skin?”
A group of twenty other soldiers rushed up the stairs and stopped, unsure of what to do. Either they’d heard the commotion or listened to everything going on with Nerine over the hallway surveillance feed.
Andraius grasped at Xander’s arm, and the fact no one helped save the asshole meant everyone had chosen sides.
“If you lay a hand on her again, I will break you. She is the true Angelos, don’t ever forget.” Xander threw Andraius to the floor.
He gasped in air and then said, “She’s sleeping with you exactly as she was with the others. That’s how she turned you against me. I knew it.”
I stepped forward, glaring down at him. “That woman has more integrity than you ever will. Don’t you dare play virtuous when you have a woman in the room behind you pretending to carry your child.”
“There are consequences for this.” The warning in Andraius’s tone conveyed he hadn’t realized he held none of the cards.
He pushed to his feet and then glared at me.
“Have you not figured it out?” I shifted toward him, letting my body mass crowd into his space. “You can’t run your organization without people like Xander and me.”
“And you think that dumb bitch can run it?”
“I know she can. And she is far from dumb. She knows the operation ten times better than you ever will. Theios Peter taught her, and while you made us play bodyguard, we brought her up to speed on current business. She’ll step right in, and no one will miss you.”
“What the hell do you mean by that?”
“I’m saying, start treating her right, or the rebellion you will face will destroy you within seconds.” I leaned down, bringing my face closer to his. “And if you even think about making what she believes you will do to her a reality, the psycho they say I am in the Caves will be the least of your concerns.”
