She sucked her bottom lip between her teeth, her eyes searching mine before she said, “Tell me what you’re planning.”
“Oh yay,” Liv said, rubbing her hands together. “More scheming. I missed this.”
Tori shot Liv a look. “I didn’t say I would agree.”
“I want to take Bradman down.”
“You’re mad to think you can go up against Carl Bradman. He’s too powerful.”
“Every powerful man has a weakness.”
Her brow quirked. “Do you?”
“You’re my weakness. You always have been.”
The exhale that left her mouth was alluring, and it would have been the perfect time to kiss her except for Liv’s interruption.
“Don’t make me sick.”
Tori gave me a smile. Realizing I still had my body pinned against the door to block her escape, I ushered her back to where Liv stood.
“You can’t take over his company,” said Tori. “He’s public and we’re not, nor do we plan to be. There’s no way you can touch him like you did your father’s company.”
I thought about how my father had admitted he had caught on to what Liv and I were doing. How he had let it play out, like some test to earn his approval without us even knowing.
“Then we take him down another way.”
“What makes you think I’ll agree to this?” Tori asked.
“I don’t,” I admitted, scrunching my hair.
She walked over and sat in the chair next to Liv. “What’s your plan? And it better be legal or I’m out of here. I will notbe involved in anything that could taint my reputation or this company.”
My smile spread at the loyalty she already had for the company. “Nothing illegal. That’s not the way we work. Clean paper trails only.”
“But you can’t touch Bradman,” she argued.
“Our father knows a way,” Liv added, and I scowled at her.
“Your father?”
Now it was my turn to sigh.
Her forehead creased. “What does he want?”
“This should be fun,” Liv mumbled.
“To see Reid.”
Tori was up from her seat within seconds. “Absolutely not. How can you even entertain that thought after what he did to you?”
I stepped into her space, taking her arms in my hands. “I told him no. That’s as far as I got before Liv came in and coerced me into involving you.”
“Well, you can thank her for saving your ass because I would have been out of here if you had deceived me again.”
“Damn it, Tori. I’m not deceiving you. I just didn’t want you involved in something that could hurt you.”
“I’m already involved because of what he did.” She looked between me and Liv as I released her arms. “Did you tell her?”
