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“Remy, please,” he said touching my forearm.
Heat washed through me. There was no way I could resist his request now.
“You know what? You’re right. What I have to say might influence what you have to say, so I should go first.”
“Oh!” Dillon said taken aback. “Okay,” he agreed nervously.
I straightened up, seriousness washing over my face. “I’ve been thinking about you… about us. And… I don’t know.”
With his tan complexion turning bright red, he put his delicate fingers on my chest. “Wait, before you do, I need to tell you this.”
“No, really, I should tell you this first.”
Dillon insisted, “Don’t say it until I say what I have to say.”
“Oh, shit!”
“It’s not bad. I promise,” Dillon assured me before noticing that I was looking at something behind him. “What’s wrong?”
“I’ll be back in a minute and I promise you we’ll continue this conversation,” I said, reluctantly tearing myself away from him.
Crossing the room, I headed toward Armand Clément, my father’s greatest rival and the man with whom I had made my deal. In exchange for my release from the mafia world, I agreed to give him my father’s illegal businesses.
For it, I would keep the businesses I had created from scratch. On top of that, his organization would offer my family its protection. I had considered it a win-win. He got what he and my father had shed blood over, and I would be free to have what I had built… and Dillon.
Hil, my mother, and I would owe him nothing else. We would never have to see him again.
Yet, here he was flanked by two of his henchmen and a stunning blonde who was young enough to be his daughter. Fighting back my urge to strangle the life out of him, I approached him standing close enough to smell his breath.
“What are you doing here, Armand?” I asked not giving him an inch.
“Remy, I’m here to pay my respects,” he replied with a hint of sarcasm.
“Bullshit. If you wanted to show your respect you wouldn’t have stepped foot onto my father’s territory.”
“But this isn’t your father’s territory anymore. It’s mine. It’s all mine. Thanks to you.”
“And our deal was that you would back off and let us live our lives.”
“No,” Armand corrected with a smirk. “Our deal was that I would treat you like family. So, I’m here… for family.”
I stared at his smug face wanting to bury my fist into it. I couldn’t, though. Not here. Not now.
“Cut the crap and get to the point, Armand. Why are you here?”
The scar-faced man with a body built on indulgence, released a snake of a smile.
“That’s why I like you. You always get right to business. Okay, here it is. I’ve been doing some research. It turns out that the businesses I allowed you to keep are worth a bit more than I would have guessed. My accounts say more than a billion.”
“You mean the businesses I built from scratch without my father’s help.”
“No, I mean the ones that you built on the back of your father’s empire—an empire that is now mine.”
“That’s not the way it worked. My father had nothing to do with my companies.”
“But his money did. Money that came out of the blood of my people, at my expense.”
I clenched my fists, struggling to keep my cool. “Armand, I gave you everything else. What more do you want?” I demanded.
