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“You know why I’m calling I assume?”
“Goddamn right I do!” My father bellows. “You took my daughter, you fucking prick!”
I start to open my mouth. But Max just arches an eyebrow and shakes his head. I purse my lips tight.
“Good girl,” he whispers. I blush. Of course I blush.
“Where is she?!” My dad yells.
“She’s safe. She’s fine. Let’s talk civilly so it stays that way.”
“Fuck you, you little prick.”
I open my mouth, but Max looks at me sharply. He shakes his head, and I glare back. But I close my mouth and sit back on the couch. My dad’s temper and his inability to even give a single inch is legendary. It’s also why we hardly ever get along. That and him wanting to control my whole life and keep me caged up.
“So what the fuck do you want, asshole?” My dad sounds angrier than I’ve ever heard.
“Two million, untraceable. And safe passage out of the city. Also, I don’t want to need to be looking in my rearview mirror, ever.”
My dad laughs coldly. “Anything else? How about a fuckin’ handjob and a private jet?”
“Well fuck, Dino,” Max grins. “If you’re offering. I mean, only if you’ve been moisturizing those hands.”
I actually have to bite my lip to stop from grinning. Max is an arrogant prick, but I really do wish I could see the look on my father’s face right now. No one haseverspoken to Dino De Luca like that. As it is, I can hear him sputtering before the stream of swears come rattling out.
“I’m gonna skin your dumb ass alive, you motherfucking cock-sucking—”
“Dino, Dino,” Max sighs. “Let’s not say things we can’t take back.”
I stare at him in disbelief. It was audacious to steal a mob boss’s daughter off the street. But speaking to my father like this might be even more insane.
“I swear to fucking God, Max…”
“I’ll take a raincheck on that tug-job, Dino. But I will take the two million and passage out of the city without being followed by your goons.”
The phone goes quiet. But then, my dad grunts into it. “You know why I left you in the wind, Max?”
Max rolls his eyes. “You mean when you set me up and tried to take me out?”
My dad chuckles. “Yep. That. Because you were poking your fucking nose where it don’t belong.”
I frown curiously, wondering what my dad is talking about. I don’t like to get involved with his mob shit ever. But then, I’m more than a little involved in this business already.
Max scowls darkly. “I knew you were a piece of shit Dino, but this new business of yours is a new low. So low you had to hide it.”
“My business is my own, asshole,” my father snarls.
“The big bosses know you’re running girls, Dino?”
My heart stops. The color drains from my face. My eyes fly to Max, hoping to see that he’s joking. But it’s clear he’s not. My stomach turns in disgust, and I feel cold. For as awful a parent as my father is, and for as bad a guy he is, that’s a line he’s never crossed. The bosses above him apparently forbid it anyways. But the idea of my father pimping out women has me wanting to vomit.
And then, I hear my father start to laugh. “Those girls?” He chuckles. “Who gives a fuck? They’re nobodies, asshole.”
“They’re human fucking beings,” Max hisses. There’s genuine anger and fury on his face.
“Immigrants.” My dad sounds indifferent and callous. “No one gives a shit about them.”
Max closes his eyes. It looks like he’s shaking with rage. He sucks in a breath of air and opens his eyes. And all I see is blind fury.
