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“You don’t know that.”
“Open your eyes. He stole one billion dollars from Carter Energy,” she shouted.
“What if it was your brother?” I threw back at her.
She deflated but not without a glare that cut through me.
Mulaney crossed her arms, refusing to look at me. “Don’t talk to him about this. We can dump the pipeline and be done with this whole mess.”
“Dump the pipeline? With everything we know, if we try to sell it without disclosure, we’d be in it even deeper. In case you missed it, it looks like we bought the damn thing with stolen money.”How? Why would he do this?
“In case you missed it, your brother is a manipulative, conniving, lying shithead.” She stalked toward me until she was right up in my face. “Don’t talk to him.”
Our gazes clashed, this was one war we weren’t on the same side of. “I have to.”
Chapter Forty-Eight
Easton
“I just ordered pizza. Want a beer?”
I reared back and punched Drew square in the jaw. He reached for his face and blinked at me, stunned.
“I offered you a beer,” he said in disbelief.
I charged, tackling him to the ground, and landed another blow.
“What the fuck?” He grabbed my shirt collar and yanked in an attempt to throw me off him.
“Why’d you do it?” I clamped a hand around his throat.
“Do what?” He head-butted me, though I barely felt it, and rolled us over. We kept tumbling until we hit a wall.
I had the upper hand again. He squirmed and kicked underneath me.
“You stole everything,” I shouted, slamming his head against the floor. “How could you do it? Why did you do it?”
He landed a punch, narrowly missing my nose. I shook it off and shoved him down.
“Who the hell are you? Because you sure as shit aren’t my brother.” I pushed to my feet and stared at him in disgust.
His face had red splotches and his shirt was torn. He had the audacity to look at me like a wounded dog. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Drew sat up on his elbow and rubbed his jaw again.
“You stole a billion dollars from Carter Energy.” I heaved, out of breath from the realization of what he’d done.
He flew to his feet. “The hell I did.” He grimaced. “That wife of yours has played everybody for a fool.”
“You’re the one who’s done that.”
“Me? Am I the CEO of Carter Energy?”
“Nobody is. You destroyed it,” I yelled, pushing him.
He shoved me back. “I should’ve been.”
“Is that what this is about?” I asked incredulously. “What if it had been me? Would you have done the same thing?”
