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“How? I vetted him myself,” Carmichael snaps.
I smile as I remember how pissed he was when he found out that a previous personal security detail turned out to be working for Alejandro all along.
“Well, he doesn’t work for me. But some friends of ours know his boss. You know how it is,” he says with a smile.
One of the many advantages of having the Ryan brothers as friends, is that they know every single person worth knowing in New York. A quick word in an associate’s ear was all it took for Fitz to leave early. There was a time when Carmichael had a whole team of security, but since he lost the financial backing of Montoya Inc. his star has faded somewhat.
“Could you give us a moment?” I say to the housekeeper.
She looks at her boss, but he just stares at her.
“I’m pretty sure this piece of shit doesn’t pay you enough for this, lady?” I say, pulling a wad of hundred dollar bills from my coat pocket.
Money makes the world go round. And Foster Carmichael is a self-centered, entitled, arrogant prick. I know without a doubt that he does not treat his staff well.
She looks at the cash and then at her scumbag boss. Then she takes it from my hand, pulls her coat from the night stand and walks out of the house.
“Rosie,” he shouts after her, but she doesn’t even look back.
“Shall we?” Alejandro says as he gestures toward the front door.
Foster looks between his son-in-law and me, blinking in shock. “You seriously think I’d go anywhere with you?”
“I don’t see that you have much choice,” I say.
“You can’t just walk in here and kidnap me. I’m Foster fucking Carmichael. People will notice I’m gone.”
“Like who?” I frown at him. “Your housekeeper who just walked out of here for ten thousand bucks. Or your wife, who’s so out of her head on pills that she doesn’t even know what fucking day it is?”
He glares at me as he realizes that no-one gives a shit about him. Treat people like crap long enough and they will do the same to you.
“You come with me or I kill you right now and make it look like a suicide,” Alejandro snarls. “But your daughter wants to look you in the eye. And believe it or not, she is your only hope of making it out of this alive. Because, despite how much I fucking despise your guts, you suckhijo de puta,I would spare your life if I thought it would ease her pain. Now move.”
Carmichael remains frozen to the spot for a few moments before his feet finally stumble forward and he moves toward the direction of the front door.
Just five minutes later, he is in the back seat of the car with me for company as we drive to our friend’s building where Lucia and Alana are waiting.
Chapter36
Jax
Isent a text to Lucia to let her know we were on our way, so when we arrive at the apartment building, I’m not surprised to see our buddy, Conor Ryan waiting outside for us to let us in.
“What the hell? You’re taking me to a nightclub?” Carmichael sneers.
“You wish you were going to a nightclub, you sick fuck,” I snarl at him. Part of the building’s basement and most of the ground floor is a nightclub, but there are also soundproof rooms down here too.
“The place you’re going to is a whole lot quieter and with less people,” Alejandro laughs as he drives through the huge steels doors and rolls the car to a stop. I climb out first, reaching in and pulling Carmichael out with me.
Conor locks the garage doors and walks over to us as Alejandro steps out of the car.
“The ladies are on their way down. The room you need is over there,” he nods to an open steel door tucked away in the corner of the basement, “and I’m sure anything else you might need is in there too.”
“Thanks, amigo,” Alejandro says with a nod of his head.
“What the fuck is going on?” Carmichael wails, trying to wrench himself from my grasp. “Do you know who I am?” he directs this question to Conor.
“Yeah,” is all Conor says, before winking at us and heading back through the basement to the elevator. The doors open a few seconds later and Lucia and Alana step out. Conor speaks to them briefly before he steps into the elevator. The doors close behind him and Lucia and Alana make their way over to us.
