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“We don’t know each other well—” I started, rifling through the bag of clothing Sonya had packed for us.
“You don’t know me at all,” he stated, and I paused, looking over at him, casually leaning against the doorframe, hands in his pockets.
“No. I suppose I don’t.” I resumed the search until I found what I was looking for. “Since you seemed to gather a lot of information about me that isn’t readily available, I wondered if you might know someone interested in this.” He’d thought he’d been the final push to get me to sign over my rights of Gabriel to Holly, but I’d decided to do it before his threats to expose me.
I held out the velvet bag to him, but he refused to touch it. Smart guy. He already knew what I had was hot and likely didn’t want his prints anywhere near it. I dumped the coin into my palm.
Daniel leaned closer, examining it. “Where did you get this?” he asked harshly.
“I don’t think that really matters.” One dark brow rose slowly, and I sucked it up. I needed something from him. Being an asshole wasn’t going to help.
“Your girlfriend stole it,” he deduced, and I was grateful not to have to say that out loud. It already felt like I was betraying her as it was, but she’d asked if I knew anyone who could unload this damn thing. That wasn’t going to happen with it sitting in her purse.
“I have paperwork,” I volunteered. It was folded up in the bag. “I don’t know if this shit is legitimate or not. But either way, it needs to be gone.”
“You tell me who had it, and I’ll think about helping you.”
“His first name is Tamas. I don’t know his last.”
Daniel’s eyes darkened, though it didn’t seem possible that they could. “How in the hell did she get tangled up with him?”
“You know him?”
“I know everybody.” Of course he did. “Is he aware she has this?”
“Yes.” Daniel indicated for me to flip the coin over so he could see the other side. “He’s not happy about it, but she denied it and has kept it hidden from him.”
“So she’s not aware Levitt stole this from someone else?” he asked.
I gawked at the revelation and failed miserably at hiding my surprise.
“I don’t think so, but you never know with her.”
Daniel’s face remained a mask, his guard fully in place, though it hadn’t been down much when we’d drank moonshine. This guy probably never relaxed.
“The owner of this wants it back very much,” he said, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood.
“I’m sure I don’t want to know the lengths to which he’d go to get it back,” I muttered dryly.
“I’m sure you don’t,” Daniel said. “It would be best for you to give this to me.”
I dropped the coin back in the pouch, but I didn’t hand it over. “If the owner of this wants it back, they’ve got to be willing to pay to have it returned. I don’t even have a way to verify who the thing actually belongs to.”
“I’m all the verification you need. I know you have it. I can make this easy on you or very difficult.”
So my instincts were all out of whack. I thought this guy could help me, but instead, I’d showed my hand and would walk away with nothing.
“You’ve already enjoyed making my life difficult, haven’t you?” I was fairly certain he’d not only helped Carlos and Holly against me, but Easton and Mulaney too.
“All your problems are the result of choices you made.”
Fucker. I hated it when someone else was right and didn’t need another person to point that out.
“I’ve been commissioned to find this coin. There is a fee for my services. I’ll split it with you.”
“How much?”
“Twenty-five percent of the value.”
