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Chapter 40
BASS
“I fucking knew it,” I mutter under my breath, as I pace back and forth my father’s office. “You know what, I should have expected it. This whole ploy you created, it’s fucking predictable. Come tonight son and I promise you I’m done with you. Help me close this deal with The Cobras and you are free to live your life the way you choose. Honestly I can’t believe I was so fucking stupid.”
My father sits behind his desk, casually rustling through the large stacks of cash we just picked up from our drug deal with The Cobras MC down in Pleasant Hills. When my father called me earlier, then texted both Ace and I when I ignored his calls, it was to demand our attendance for a deal we first put into play six months ago. Back when I still followed his orders. The Cobras have been trying to venture out of their gun trade ever since the recent and continuous gun violence has been inching closer to town. The daily shootings are putting a damper on business, and it’s time they cool things down before the Feds show up and start stirring shit up trying to link their guns to all the shootings.
Which is why my father decided to bring them in deeper with the drugs they already sell but have always refused to produce. Without guns, Zeke needs a source of income to keep his club up and running, and my father bet on that. It’s why we went, why my father sold The Cobras half a mil worth of Devils Kiss to cook.
Of course that wasn’t enough for my greedy father, not after the millions he lost from his business deal gone wrong with Kinsley’s father. The casino they both had invested money into fell through the moment I discovered Carlyle was fucking broke, spending all the money he was supposed to put forth for the casino on his own gambling vice. The irony is truly poetic.
However, that complicated things, but since Kane was there the day Beck and I presented the deal to Zeke, he seized the opportunity and jumped on board the deal Ace and I set up. He followed us down to Killian’s tonight, claiming to have taken the lead in the months we’ve been absent. He brought in another half a million dollars’ worth of his drug TranQ, totaling in a million-dollar deal Ace and I will see nothing of. Talk about irony.
Of course Kane also followed us back to my father’s estate and is currently perched behind him watching our exchange like it’s the most entertaining thing he’s ever witnessed.
“I warned you son, you turned your back on me, on this family. I’m simply showing you the consequences of your decision.” My father stands, walking around his desk to stand before me with a wad of cash in his hand. “I once told you a little tale, a story of when your grandfather gave me a second chance. This was yours, but you failed me son. However, I’m a good man, despite what you may believe. I’m willing to give you a third.”
My laughter echoes through the hollow walls of the room at his blatant narcissism. “Is that what you think I want?” I chuckle loudly. “You are not, in any sense of the word, a good man, but I at least used to believe you were a smart one.”
His anger is visible in the way his body tightens, his eyes narrowing down to meet mine. “You underestimate me Sebastian, that isn’t smart. You think because you are my son, blood of my blood, that I won’t hesitate to end you. What good are you to me if you do nothing but embarrass our family legacy, dragging it through the mud as you cozy up with that whore.”
“Don’t you fucking dare!” I shout out, pouncing on him but his men who have been guarding the door like someone’s trying to break in instead of breaking out, pull me back just in time to spare him. Instead I spit at his feet, “Don’t you dare speak of her, Jade is worth more than you could ever imagine.”
“One hundred thousand,” he utters, handing me the stack of money in his hand.
“What the hell is this?” I sneer, not reaching out to take it.
His slate eyes watch me impassively, not an ounce of emotion in them. This is the monster who created me. The Victor Frankenstein to my hideous monster, and I'm Dr. Jeckle to his Mr. Hyde. “Your cut,” he states, as if it’s obvious. “Ace will receive the same. Though Jade was a bit more ambitious.”
I smack the cash out of his hand, “What the hell are you talking about?”
“I had a nice little conversation with your whore at the hospital, right after she gave birth to my grandchildren. How are they by the way?”
“Stay the fuck away from my kids father, I am warning you,” I growl, pushing at his chest, but his men, well Kane’s soldiers step forward to grab me. However, my father surprises me, raising his hand to halt them.
“Don’t worry, those two are nothing of mine as I have no interest in them. I was already punished with you and then burdened with Stella. I’ve had my fair share of incompetence to last a lifetime.” He walks over to the bar, pouring himself a glass of bourbon. “But Jade on the other hand, was very eager to converse. She’s quite the negotiator.”
“I don’t know what you're playing at but Jade told me you went there to scare her away, telling her the same old age bullshit about us not fitting well together because of our class levels and status. I don’t care about any of that father.”
“Oh but she didn’t tell you the best part. Five-hundred-thousand dollars. That was her price tag. To leave you, to leave those little bastards you fathered. Honestly, I didn’t think she’d go for it at first, thought I was going to have to do some serious threatening but she took it in stride. Took the check and said she’d do it the moment I decided it was time.”
“You’re pathetic father, Jade’s been by my side this entire time. Those two bastards are my children and they mean the world to her, to both of us.”
“Yes well why do you think I dragged you out today. Call her if you don’t believe me. She left, abandoned the children with Scarlett, and left.” Behind him a TV screen with four security camera screens, lights up showing Jade, standing beside a train station, a backpack hung over her shoulder. I know it’s fake, my baby would never leave me, but my father has managed to plant the seed of distrust in me. I wouldn’t question it, but it is her, and she’s wearing the Red Riding Hood cloak she had on today.
“That’s doctored, fake. I don’t know what you did or how you did it, but I don’t believe you.”
“If you don’t believe me, listen to this recording yourself.” He reaches into his pocket pulling out his phone.
Suddenly Jade’s voice comes on speaking with Scar and telling her about the money my father offered her. I listen to the recording, unbelieving but hearing the same story my father claims from her own lips.
I should have taken him up on his offer, I should have left when I had the chance.
And just like that the recording cuts off.
“That can’t…”
“It was taken today, just moments before this footage actually. She’s left you Sebastian, she took the money and left. The same way your mother left, taking the money your grandfather offered her in exchange for abandoning you.”
