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“Why not let him? It’s his choice and as much as I don’t understand the sentiment behind it, I can’t exactly lock him up here.” He pauses. “Although that could be arranged.”
“Did he tell you to come to find me?”
“Yes. He wanted you to know that you have a small fortune to your name extracted from his shares that you can use to open your own restaurant. Not to mention that this old thing is being processed to be in your name as we speak. You take the staff that comes with it, too, or you’ll have to do some satanic ritual to be able to fire them.”
“Why?”
“I’m sure they would prefer to work here for free rather than leaving the place.”
“No, why did he do this?”
Zach appears perplexed. “I believe the right word would be that he’s an idiot, but I hope for your sake that you’re not. I’ll be watching what you do with his shares and if I smell a gold-digger who used my brother, I’ll make sure you eat dirt for the rest of your life.”
“I don’t want his money! I only ever wanted him, but that’s never been reciprocated. And now he’s doing this and confusing me…”
“Are you daft?”
“Excuse me?”
Zach’s expression doesn’t change. “You’re either daft or too oblivious to notice. Daniel has been following you like a lost puppy ever since we were kids. He’d ask Mother to lie and say she got you the birthday gifts and he never asks Mother for anything. And he’s now leaving you a fortune that will make your grandchildren live like kings, not to mention that he beat up the scum who assaulted you and cut off his dick like a noodle, then made him drop the custody case for your brother. So please enlighten me, which part in that sounds like he never reciprocated?”
My jaw hurts from how much I clenched it and all I can think about is the last bit he said. “Daniel beat up Christopher?”
“Yes, he didn’t tell me so himself, but I found out on my own. See, he might have chosen to stay away, but that doesn’t mean I’ll let that idiot run loose. When he bought his penthouse in New York City, I made the owner sell me the building so I can get daily reports about him. I did it under another company name, of course, so he doesn’t catch up. Since he landed in London, I had a skilled PI watch him from afar. And before you ask, he didn’t tell me about your assault, I found out about that myself as well. Apparently, Christopher likes going around telling stories about the women he takes advantage of.”
Daniel beat up Christopher and probably threatened him, which is why he dropped the custody case. It must’ve happened that night he came back bleeding and with a devil’s expression on his face.
An onslaught of emotions attacks me and I grab the chair for balance.
The arsehole.
How dare he do all that for me, then leave me behind?
How fucking dare he?
The course of action I have to take clearly materializes in my head. “Zach?”
“Yes.”
“You have a private plane, right?”
“I do.”
“Please let me use it so I can wait for him in New York with a sledgehammer.”
“I will not allow you to hurt my brother.”
“It’s a figure of speech. I’m not actually going to do it.”
He narrows his eyes. “Fine.”
I’m just about to get ready when his phone vibrates. He answers with, “Sterling.”
He listens for a bit, then hangs up. Zach’s expression doesn’t change when he smashes my world to pieces. “Daniel was stabbed.”
* * *
My heart has been stuckin my throat ever since Zach told me the news about Daniel’s stabbing.
