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“Royal Murdoch, what a pleasure to finally meet you, cousin.” Chance says breaking the silence. Royal leans forward and places his elbows on the table smiling as he looks between me and Chance.
“Oh, the pleasure is all mine, cousin.” My eyes widen, my brows are practically touching my hairline at the sound of his voice, this man, whoever he is, isn’t Royal Murdoch.
ROYAL
I see her shoulders stiffen and watch for her to say something.
I didn’t expect him to bring a woman to this meeting, much less a stunning one like her. She is fucking beautiful, long blonde hair, hazel eyes that stare right into your soul. She looked at me like she knew my secret, something about her intrigues me. I never knew Chance had a woman, she’s a curveball I didn’t see coming and will need to rectify that immediately.
“I hear you honored our agreement.” Chance says as he leans back in his chair and sips his whiskey like a pompous prick.
“I told you I would.” The woman’s head cocks to the side, does she know that’s not really me sitting across from her?
I maintain my position behind her and Chance, and cut a glance to Chaos telling him without words to stay the fuck on track. See, the bonus about no one knowing who you are or what you look like means you could be anyone, like right now. Chance has no idea the new guard he hired to watch over his fiance isme, he also has no fucking idea that the man sitting across from him is Chaos. “Now, will you keep your end of the deal?”
Chance laughs but there is zero humor in it. “Oh cousin, I don’t even know you or trust you for that matter. If you want your daddy and uncles to be released you need to prove to me that I can trust you in honoring your word to never allow the Murdoch mafia to return.” I fight the urge to growl and clench my fists at my side, I knew Chaos would be the perfect person to impersonate me because nothing fazes him, everything is a joke and no matter what Chance says or does it won’t get him to snap.
“How do I prove that?” Chaos asks as he slams the other glass of whiskey back and smacks it down on the table. Chance bristles at his blatant display of arrogance, Chaos is a master at getting under peoples skin and acting like he never meant to do it in the first place.
“By showing me the books and helping me take over the dealings your father was doing, in order for your father to truly fall we need to be able to take over all his holdings and make sure there is no way he can ever recover.”
Chaos purses his lips and nods, acting like he is thinking about Chance’s offer but in truth, he already knows what he is going to do.
“Fine. You need to give me your word that no harm will come to my mom or aunts and my cousins.”
“In truth, I expected you to come with your cousins, well, at least Knight and Carlina’s kids but I guess I was wrong.”
Chaos snorts. “Nah man, as soon as they found out that they could do as they pleased because their daddies weren’t around, they booked it the fuck out of town and I haven’t heard from any of those pricks.” I tune out the remainder of their conversation and watch the girl, she says nothing but I can tell from the subtle way her head will turn or how her shoulders hunch that she is listening to every word they say. Knowledge is power, that’s what my grandpa always said to me and something is telling me that is what this woman is doing. She’s soaking up every bit of information she can get, for what, I have no fucking idea but I plan to find out.
“Well, I guess that just goes to show you that your family isn’t truly loyal.” I see Chaos’s eyes spark with anger, that is one of the only things that will set him off is calling his twin's loyalty into question, Havoc would die before he ever gave his brother up. Before Chaos can ruin everything and snap at Chance, the woman places her hand on Chance's arm to garner his attention. He scowls at her but she doesn’t cower, just raises her brow and then… Holy fuck, she’s deaf!
The movements she does with her hands have me captivated and pissed the fuck off. I can’t understand what she is saying. Of course, she has been silent this whole time and listened, she can’t fucking speak! Chance looks pissed off but not at her.. At himself, can he not sign either?
The moment Chaos wraps his knuckles against the table both Chance and the woman turn to face him, before Chance can utter a word I watch dumbfounded as my cousin begins to sign to Erika, unlike the woman, he speaks aloud as he signs.
“Hi, my name is Royal, it’s a pleasure to meet you…?” He lets his sentence trail off, she beams across the table at him and signs. Chaos smiles and nods and then repeats what he did a minute ago. “Nice to meet you, Erika.” She smiles and ducks her head when Chance scoffs, it pisses me the fuck off that he embaressed her like that.
“Ignore her, she is here only because of an incident from earlier.” I cut Chaos a look and blink twice telling him to hand it over.
“The incident wouldn’t have something to do with a card, would it?” Within two point five seconds the four guards around the room have their guns drawn and pointed at Chaos, the fucker just smirks and shakes his head.
“How the hell did you know that?” Chance grits out as he finally drops his facade, I knew he wasn’t a ballsy fuck like he pretends to be. The guys cock is only as big as his security detail, this fucker would never go to war with his men he would remain locked inside his panic room.
“Because I got one as well.” Chaos taps his breast pocket and cocks a brow at Chance asking without words if he can grab it.
“Lower your guns.” He orders as Chaos removes the card from his breast pocket and drops it in the center of the table, unlike Chance’s card, Chaos’s is an Ace of Diamonds– Havoc’s calling card. “When did you get this?”
“This morning when I checked into the hotel, it was waiting on my bed.” The mixture of fear and surprise on Chance’s face has me fighting back a smirk, the fucker thought he was slick and could use the cards against me to get the cartel to take us out, nah bitch, I’m ten fucking steps ahead of you.
“If you’ve been given one, then that means…”
“You thought I was the one behind this pathetic card game?” Chaos snorts and shakes his head. “I have better things to do with my time then run around dropping fucking cards at people’s places.” Chaos is selling this perfectly. “Whoever the fucker is, I’m gonna find him and kill him because no one threatens me.”
Hook, line and sinker.
Chance leans forward and smiles wickedly at Chaos, “I think we need to combine our efforts and find this bastard. Do this for me and I will release your father and uncles, fail and they will pay the price.”
Chaos stands and brushes his hands down the front of his jacket then looks down at Chance. “In order for me to do this, I need access to the city. Am I going to be stopped from doing what I need to do?”
