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Sitting up straighter,I smiled at her and the stranger. “I am.”
“This is Noah Murphy, and he’d been hoping to see Ryan, but…” She gave me a nervous smile. “Do you have time for a consult?”
“Of course,” I automatically answered.
“Oh, great,” she said, breathing a sigh of relief.“Then…then I’ll leave you to it.”
As soon as Myra left, Noah Murphy took one of the seats in front of me, andthough he might have fooled Myra in that suit, I knew better. There was something in his blue eyes that already had me knowing what this was, and I was getting really fucking sick of this shit. I also knew that Rafael would have made him had it not been for Myra walking him in here, which was probably why he’d done it.
“So, tell me, do you see Ryan making it in to work at all this week, Mrs. Sartori?” he asked, and while still good-looking, I wanted to smack that smugness off his face.
Stretching my neck back, cracking the tension, when I looked back over at him, I said, “Look, I don’t have time for more bullshit. If Emil sent you to kill me, then just fucking do it already.”
His brows rose in surprise, then his lips twitched before saying, “Emil didn’t send me.”
“Sure, he didn’t,” I scoffed.
“You really don’t know?”
That had melifting my chin. “I don’t appreciate being mocked, no matter why you’re here, Mr. Murphy. In fact, is that even your real name?”
His blue eyes glittered with interest. “Noah Murphy is my real name.”
“Well, good for fucking you,” I bit out, so fucking tired of men. Nevertheless, if that was his real name, then Emil Schulz hadn’t sent him; Declan O’Brien had.
“I’m here because my boss would like to meet you,” he stated, finally tellingme what he was doing here.
“Why in the hell would Declan O’Brien wantto meetme?”When his brows rose in surprise again, I added, “Don’t forget, Mr. Murphy, while I might be signing my name Kasen Sartori now, I used to sign it Kasen Milano. I know exactly who your boss is. I also know who Avgust Kotov is.”
“Fairenough,” he conceded.
“So, again, why in the hell would Declan O’Brien want to meet with me?”
“Because he’s curious,” he answered.
“Curious about what?” I asked. “And before you think of dicking me around, I warn you that I am not in thefucking mood.” His lips twitched again, and a part of me thought he looked impressed, but that could also be the after-effects of the pain medication.
“You’ve heard of Helen of Troy, yes?” I nodded. “Well, Declan is curious about the woman that launched a thousand semi-automatic weapons that wiped out the entire Schulz syndicate this weekend.”
I could feel the blood rushing through my veins, my heart beating faster. “What?”
“You really didn’t know?”
“Do I look like I would have been consulted?” I asked dryly.
“Well, with the Germans out of the picture now, Nero was kind enough to gift us with a third of theirterritory.” Noah grinned. “You know, since they won’t be needing it anymore.”
Nero had spent all weekend wiping out the Germans, and honestly, I didn’t know how I felt about that. Oh, I’d known that he’d retaliate, but I hadn’t believed that he’d reallykill them all. I had expected some sort of negotiations since it was always about business with these men.
“How kind of him,” I deadpanned.
Noah’s lips twitched again. “Declan would like to thank you personally for our good fortune. After all, had it not been for you, none of this would have happened.”
“If that’s the case, then you should be thanking RyanBuckner for your good fortune. After all, if it hadn’t been for his stupidity, then none of this would have happened,” I corrected.
“Well, we can’t very well do that since you killed him, can we?”
While I had no idea how he knew that, it didn’t matter. However, it did matter what Declan O’Brien knew, and if he thought that he was going to be able to intimidate me or blackmail Nero, he was wrong. I was not going to live my life looking over my shoulder, worried about the goddamn Irish.
