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I roll my eyes but move to hide my gun away, almost as I prepare to move on from the storm cloud that’s been following me since I left the deli this afternoon.
“I had a meeting. He never showed, and then some girl fell into me.”
I’ve been replaying the moment repeatedly since she walked out with her fiancé. Something about her attitude, the way she felt the same connection to me only to sidestep the moment before we could get truly intimate.
I call her a girl, but anyone with eyes could see she was all woman.
“Had a meeting with who?” he presses, not biting at the part where I said someone fell into me.
“With Mike.”
“Mike? As inIntel Mike?”
“Yes.” I rub my brow as I prepare to rip the band-aid off. “I wanted him working double time on tracking Natalia down. He said he had news. Wanted to meet for a drink or two.”
“I see.” He rubs both palms down the legs of his trousers as he sits up straighter. “It’s a good thing, really. I went to Intel Mike too because I knew your control issues wouldn’t let me handle it.”
“You’re a bastard.”
“I know I am, which is why we work so well,” he agrees, not at all put out about my lack of confidence in him. “So, when you left me to wait on Benny, I shot Intel Mike a call. Wanted to dig a little on what he knew, and the moment he said he had nothing much to tell you, I told him to abort. Told him it wasn’t worth the journey.”
“So, you’re the reason he didn’t turn up?”
“Unfortunately, yeah. That’s on me, and I had every intention of coming to The Regency to find you, but Benny got held up. I had to babysit a room full of dead bodies—who, by the way, aren’t great conversationalists—and by the time I made it, you had left, and Connor said about the woman you had been with.” He turns his head, that mischievous look that drives most people mad growing in his expression. “Never had you down as a nursemaid, but apparently, you can surprise even me.”
“Yeah. Surprised myself with that one too.”
I wasn’t the type that pandered to damsels in distress because that was a kettle of fish I stayed away from. I knew what rewards compassion reaped, and she had proven me completely right.
Usually, giving a shit is reserved for those who deserve it. One of those is now six feet under, and the other is sitting beside me.
And feeling a fool is not something I deal with well.
“You said he had nothing much to tell me… what did he have to say?”
I know how to read Sebastian almost as much as I can read the back of my hand. It’s how we work, how we’ve survived the years that have passed. Changing the subject on that notion made this easier, because while I might have been played, I have bigger fish to fry.
“Nicolas’s money went to an overseas account.”
In other words, the inheritance was delivered without a will reading.
“Do we know whose?”
“No name, but do you really need three guesses?”
Ire grew now, foolishness forgotten.
“So, she’s now a billionaire.”
A small feeling of dread balls in my stomach, and while I knew this was coming, I can’t fathom how everything is going to change.
Natalia was always a loose cannon when she lived in this house, but I can only imagine how much worse she became when she cut her restraints and ran. No longer tethered to The Company but locked and loaded with their secrets was always something that kept me awake at night.
The idea of her armed with that information and now loaded with a bank account full of cash isn’t something that inspires peace of mind.
“You know how dangerous she is now?”
My question is matched with a short tone, my eyes narrowing on the darkening sky as day turns to night.
