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His lips curl at the corners. “Who says I have no need for Mr. Robinson’s warehouse?”
“You’re playing games with the wrong family,” I mutter.
“I wasn’t aware any of this was a game at all, Hades. But if you’re just havingfun,” he snarls, “perhaps you could stop sniffing around Serj Mirzoyan and save us both a lot of headaches.”
“Gavan, I wouldn’t dodge a speeding train if it would save you a headache.”
He smiles. “Perhaps you were right, before.”
“About?”
“Excusing yourself before we even started this conversation. I’m not sure we have anything to talk about if this is how we’re going to behave.”
“Aww, I’m all broken up.”
He shakes his head, lifting his glass in a toast.
“Enjoy your evening, Hades.”
“Eat a bag of dicks, Gavan.”
I glare at his back as he disappears into the crowd. I’m about to slam back my whiskey and order five more when Vanya shoves herself against the bar next to me.
“What’s the holdup on that wine?”
“Russian embargo.”
She arches a brow. “Huh. I did see Leo Stavrin prowling about. I figured the one holding his leash was probably around here as well.”
“Your father is talking to them, too, isn’t he?” I lock eyes with her. “The Reznikov Bratva, I mean.”
She nods. “He is.”
I turn, stabbing my gaze through the crowd, looking for Gavan.
When I find him, my jaw clenches tight.
What the fuck.
Standing right next to the Russian prick is a familiar dash of white-blonde in a stunning red dress.
Elsa.
I want to tell myself to leave it alone. Gavan is a client of Taylor Crown’s, and it makes perfect sense for he and Elsa to be speaking in passing at a Crown and Black function.
Except I fuckinghateit. I hate how close he’s standing to her. And I see fucking red, as red as her gown, when he leans down and murmurs something into her fucking ear.
“Hades?”
My face is dark as I glance back at Vanya.
“Sorry. What would I have to do to throw a stick into the spokes of that situation?”
She smirks. “Of my father talking with Gavan Tsarenko?”
“Yes. And by stick, I mean lit fucking dynamite.”
She nods slowly. “There is something, actually.”
