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He smirks. “Perceptive.”
“Thank you.”
Gavan clears his throat. “I don’t honestly give a shit who you choose to sleep with, Ms. Guin. And while I can appreciate my captain’szealousness,” he turns to arch a brow at a glowering Leo, “in trying to secure this deal for me through whatever means he saw fit, no one’s forcing anyone to marry anyone else.”
I turn to sneer at Leo. He looks like he’s got a lot to say. But he just glances at Gavan before leaning against the wall with his arms folded over his chest and remains silent, glaring at me.
“Now, as I understand it, the Drakos family isalsointerested in doing business with Serj Mirzoyan?”
I raise one brow, dipping my chin and keeping pointedly silent. Gavan grins.
“Right, of course. Attorney client privilege and all that. Even so…” He leans back in the chair, drumming his fingers on the arm rest as his gray eyes stab into mine. “Some deals, like Mr. Mirzoyan’s, are too important to leave up to whichever way the wind might blow at a negotiating table.”
“Then I suggest you retain great counsel and bring a large check to that negotiating table, Mr. Tsarenko. I’m afraid I can’t divulge any information about other clients I may or may not be representing.”
“Watch your fucking tone,daughter,” Leo spits venomously.
Gavan holds up a hand, his eyes still locked on mine.
“Brass tacks, Ms. Guin. What would it take for you to divulge information on these hypothetical clients of yours?”
I blink, stunned at his brazenness.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Tsarenko—”
“Gavan is fine.”
“Mr. Tsarenko,” I say again. “Are you implying that you’d like to bribe me into breaking my attorney client privilege in order to give you sensitive information about a business rival of yours?”
“Oh, I’m not implying anything, Ms. Guin,” he smiles. “I’m flat out asking you.”
I bristle, shaking my head. “I’m afraid that’s not going to happen. And I’m not comfortable with the tenor of this conversation.”
Gavan says nothing. His eyes don’t leave mine.
I swallow. “I think it would be best if you left now.”
His brow arches, and the corners of his lips curl slightly.
“You’re sure? Because once an offer of a gift in return for information goes away, it generally doesn’t come back.”
“Mr. Tsarenko, I am flat out telling you I will not be taking money in exchange for breaking my professional code of ethics, not to mention the law.”
Gavan takes a deep breath. He doesn’t make a single move to stand. His fingers drum the arm rest over and over, jacking my anxiety through the roof until it feels like I’m going to explode.
“Mr. Tsarenko—”
He sighs. “I suppose we’ll have to go with the threat, instead.”
I go cold as something frosty glints in his steely eyes.
“Excuse me?”
“If you don’t want to accept the carrot, Ms. Guin,” he says in his deep, growly tone, “then we’ll have no choice but to use the stick.”
A shiver ripples down my spine. “Mr. Tsarenko, all due respect. But for professional and legal reasons, given that I am not your attorney, I’m afraid I have to ask you to leave—”
“Oh, for fuck’s sake!” Leo finally snaps, surging from the wall and slamming his knuckles on the front edge of my desk and leaning menacingly across it. “Do what he’s fucking telling you to do, or so fucking help me God, there’ll beanotherGuin sister—one who presumably hasn’t whored herself out yet—offered to Melik to secure this deal.”
