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“Kent Dagger,” I said. “I believe. I’ve never met the man myself.”
Charles nodded and continued his meal. I didn’t quite know why he was so interested but come Monday I knew Kent would get an offer he’d never be able to refuse to sell his club to my father. The man who didn’t take no from anybody.
I cut into my roast, but the meat was tasteless. My own father, still controlling me even though I was old enough to live on my own.
What I would give to be free of his shackles and live freely.
The doors to the dining room flew open and I saw Zane standing there, seething, a cut to his head, bleeding.
Raina gasped and made a move to run to him but he was faster than her and he ran for me. I was barely able to get out of my seat before he tackled me to the ground, landing blow after blow into my gut. My breathing was labored as I heard my father’s loud voice call for us to stop.
Zane ignored him and I rolled over so he was on the ground before I pulled him to his feet and shoved him back, my anger taking over. I didn’t care if they disowned me at this moment. I was sick of being the son they thought of as a burden.
My mother’s pleas to stop echoed through the large room but Zane was on a mission to end me. I could see it in his eyes. The selfish brat would get it too, they would both side with him and I would be relegated back to my apartment across town.
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind that in the least. I’d never wanted to be in this family. I never asked to be born.
I felt my father’s hand on my neck, yanking me away from Zane. His other hand was on the scruff of Zane’s neck, pulling him off me.
“I said enough,” he said through gritted teeth. “Zane, get to your room and clean yourself up.”
He shoved Zane toward the door. Raina ran after her prized bull without so much as a glance at me. During my younger years that had hurt, but not anymore. I was numb to the rejections of my mother. My father let me go with a grunt.
“You two will cease this ignorant bullying of each other,” he said. “I am sick of having two sons at each other’s throats.”
Of course, he hated it. He was always the one stepping in between us. One of these days Zane was going to get what was coming to him and I would reap all the rewards.
“Go home,” he said to me, without looking back at me.
I sighed, and turned my back on my father, leaving the childhood palace of a home I had always had. I doubted I would be invited back but right now, that was the furthest thing from my mind.
Fuck this family.
Chapter One
Halen
15yearslater
The club was considerably packed tonight for a weeknight. I’d never seen so many people on the dance floor before and it filled me with joy. The more dancing, the more drinking, and the more coin in my pocket.
When my father boughtObsidianfor me, I knew there was only one way I would manage it. If it was mine and mine only. My father agreed and he signed the deed over to me. That was his way of giving me a shot.
No words needed.
I think I loved my father that day.
Ever since, I’d barely spoken a word to him as I built my empire, on the seedy side of the city and underground. My palace was underground, a tunnel leading to my palace of sin as my mother liked to call it. No one had done it before but it was my solace. It was just a little lonely from time to time. That was why I had built myself a little city underground, a hollowed out sinkhole that had become stable enough to build on. It housed a large garden, lush with plants and flowers, marketplace and houses for those who wanted to live underground, as well as my large palace, it had a workplace down there, one that helped me to keep control of my side of the city.
Obsidianwas one of the many ways I could get back up to the city above so I made it a mission of mine to come up at least once every couple of days to see how my brother was ruining the city my father and his father had built before him. Charles had retired years ago, after handing the city to Zane to manage. I hated to admit it but he wasn’t doing too badly, his empire grew every day whereas mine stayed the same.
It made me angry to see him doing well when both my brother Percy and I thought he would fail miserably.
Ren, my most trusted soldier, came to stand beside me on the balcony as he did many nights. “Busy tonight.”
“Yes,” I replied. “What news do you have?”
“None, H. The city is quiet, and your brother seems to have learnt his lesson the last time he came close to your side.”
