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“I love you too.” My eyes widen at Crue’s admission.
“You know, I fucking love you both.” I turn to Saint shocked. “We got shit to sort but right now, all I care about is getting our daughter back and getting the fuck home, then we can work out whatever the fuck we need to.”
* * *
Saint and Crue didn’t even argue when I told them I was coming. I sit in the middle of them in the back seat as Beck drives while Darius rides shotgun. I knew there was no way that they would allow Nathan to come. They have stated to forgive me, but I have no doubt it will take longer for them to extend the same courtesy to my friend. I expected Devon to live in an apartment or something lavish but the cottage style home the guys point out isn’t what I had expected at all. It looks like the type of place where happy families spend their holidays, a house filled with love if you will.
Beck parks a mile down the road so we don’t alert Devon. Before they can exit the car, I speak. “Hang on, let me check if he has a security system.” Four sets of gazes are on me. I ignore them as I reach into my backpack and pull out my laptop. None of them question me as I do my thing, I’ve proven myself to them time and again with how good I am at hacking and digging up dirt on people. I mean, I was the one who managed to find out Jackson’s hidden talents of cross dressing and stripping at the club two towns over. “Shit.”
“What?” Darius asks, I look up from my screen as I say.
“I hacked his computer, the guy doesn’t change passwords so it was easy. He has motion sensor security and the house is fitted with a top of the line alarm system monitored by a security agency nearby.”
“Can you disarm it?” Crue asks. I tap away on my keyboard trying to disarm it but then I see the embedded code and stop.
“No, if I keep hacking into the system it will alert the company as soon as I deactivate it.” I slump back into my seat feeling defeated.
“What do we do now?” Beck asks. No one answers for a while. We’re so close, she is literally mere feet away, and we can’t even get to her!
Saint
I know what I have to do, Crue is going to go crazy but I have to do this, she needs me and I won’t leave her.
“Fuck all of you!” I roar as I push my door open and leap out of the car. I don’t hang around, I head for my father’s house.
“Saint!” I hear Crue shout but I don’t stop, then the sound of their footfalls chasing me can be heard. I harden my features and prepare myself for what I’m about to do. Crue grips my arm and rips me around, but before he can blink, my fist strikes out and clips across his jaw. He lands on his ass as Beck and Darius rush toward me, but I back up a couple of steps. Katie stands behind them with wide eyes. “What the fuck?” he yells.
I pin him with a cold emotionless look. “Did you seriously think I would ever raise my daughter with the likes of you?” Hurt clouds his features but I push on. “The last thing I need is for her to be around someone like you who can’t decide what the fuck they want.”
“Saint, that’s enough!” I snap my angry scowl to Katie.
“You don’t get to fucking speak, you’re just as bad as him. Neither of your families wanted you.”
“Shut the fuck up, Saint.”
“Fuck you, Darius!” I bite out. Out of the corner of my eye I see a light flick on in the house and know without a doubt his security system caught everything I just said. “Get the fuck out of here, I’m done with all you fuckers.” I turn on my heel and head for the cottage, my chest aching with pain.
“Don’t you dare fucking do this. I know you and this isn’t going to work you asshole, I’m right here and I won’t let you do this to us.” I stop but keep my back to him, if I turn around now and Crue sees the look in my eyes he’ll know. “I love you, Saint. I’m here and I’m begging you… Please don’t fucking do this.” The broken tone of his voice kills me, but I can’t. This is the only way.
“I never loved you or her, go home, Crue, and take your bitch with you because I’m done with you both. It was fun while it lasted but now I’m over it. I already told you once, I’ll never fuck you again, you were a bet, Crue, nothing more.” The strangled sob that comes from Katie nearly has me crumbling to my knees, but I hold strong.
“You son of a bitch, don’t you fucking dare do this to him.” I ignore Katie as I force my feet to move. I feel their gazes on me the whole way until I disappear around the corner of the driveway and just like I knew he would be, my father stands in the open doorway of his house. Devon Morgan, the star of all my nightmares and the sole reason I never wanted children. A sinister smile stretches across his weathered face, his salt and pepper hair in disarray, but looking into his eyes, I see my own.
“The prodigal son returns.” The sound of his voice sends a shiver down my spine. I take a deep breath and remind myself he can’t hurt me anymore. I’m not the same eight-year-old boy he used to smack around for inheriting my mother’s estate and not him.
“Well, it appears you have something that belongs to me and I want her back.” I hear a car drive off behind me and my heart sinks. Crue is going to hate me and so is Katie. I just threw their biggest insecurities back in their faces, the things I said to my best friend is unforgivable.
He crosses his arms over his chest and hardens his stare. “Mydaughter is fast asleep.”
I grind my teeth so fucking hard they begin to ache. “Well, I would love to see her and you know, discuss the wineries and vineyards.” He can try as he might but I see the fucking twinkle in his eyes at the mention of getting what he’s always wanted. “I turn twenty-one in two months, pops,” I taunt.
He smirks. “I already won, boy, you took over the company,” he says smugly but now it’s my turn to smirk.
“Nah.” His falls slightly. “You see I set it up in a trust with BCD’S so what that means is I don’t technically own it, so that means at this point in time no one gets the wineries or Vineyards.”
“You fucking idiot, you’re throwing away millions a month,” he seethes.
“Invite me in so I can meetmydaughter, and then we’ll talk.”
