I look at him down my barrel as I hear the others get up from their seats. I hear someone cocking their gun behind me. I’m guessing Luca.
“What are you doing, Titan?” Emilee wails. “Please stop. He needs help.”
I snort. “Where was he when you needed help?” I ask.
His eyes go from mine to his daughter’s. She’s hysterical at this point. Bones has her arms pinned behind her back as she frantically tries to get to her piece of shit father. “Need help with what?” he asks.
I snort. “Like you give a fuck.”
He takes a step toward me, pressing the barrel of my gun into his chest. “You better answer me, son. You’re not the only one carrying a loaded weapon,” he warns.
I pull my lip back with disgust as he calls me son. I may love his daughter, but I hate this man. What he’s put her through. Now this—the fucker never was dead. She thought she had lost her father, then mother. Only she didn’t lose him. She’d be better off if she had. Because now we know he’s carrying a very big secret around. And it could put her life in danger.
“Please …” I hear Emilee sob. “Don’t do this, Titan. Don’t take him from me again,” she begs.
My chest tightens at her words. That she would want to save his sorry ass. So easily forgive him.
A cruel smile spreads across his face. As if this was a setup. He’s testing me. To see what she means to me. Do I kill her father and lose her forever? Or let him live and possibly take her from me? Either way, I lose because she will pick him. He’s her father that her mother cheated on and left. He has her sympathy. I’m just the guy she’s been fucking for the last month.
Making up my mind, I click my safety on and lower my gun, and say, “Yeah, babe.” His dark eyes narrow on me calling his daughter by a pet name. I’ve never done it until now. On purpose. “Tell your father how George forced you to fuck him after your father died to help pay your mother’s medical bills.” I may not be the person she loves in this room, but he let her down. She needs to remember that.
His eyes widen, and they go to her. “He what?”
She’s sobbing in Bones’s arms. But he’s no longer restraining her. Instead, she has her head in his chest. She’s so trashed that she’ll be passing out soon.
“You died. Left him everything,” I fill him in. “He shut off her cards and told her that he would pay for Nancy’s medical bills if she fucked him.” His wide eyes come back to mine. “Spoiler alert. She did. More than once.”
“Emilee?” He snaps her name like she did something wrong. He begins to walk over to her, but I slam my fist into his chest, stopping him. “Bones, put Emilee in bed. We have some shit to discuss with Nick.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
TITAN
BONES EXITS THEbedroom I’m staying in with Emilee and nods once at me, letting me know she is already passed out.
I sit on the couch next to Luca, and her father sits across from us on the other one. Tristan sits in the chair to my left next to Avery. Nite and Kayn lean against the floor-to-ceiling windows.
“We’re waiting,” I growl, glaring at her father.
He runs a hand through his hair. He has looked physically shaken ever since I announced his best friend and business partner fucked his daughter. But I don’t buy it. He faked his own death. He’ll do anything.
“I …” He lifts his head and swallows. “I was in trouble. And needed money. George suggested I fake my death. I had life insurance. He suggested we write up new papers that had me handing over everything to him.”
Bones snorts.
Nick ignores him. “I was to lay low while he waited for the payout. Then he was going to pay off what I owed, and I’d be in the clear.”
“When was the last time you spoke to him?” Luca asks.
“A couple of weeks,” he answers. “He called and told me that there were some issues with the insurance …” He stands from the couch and begins to pace the large open space between the couch and glass coffee table. “Said that his attorney informed him it could take a few months. But that it was handled.”
“And you believed him?” I question.
“I had no reason not to,” he snaps, getting angry. “I gave him access to my accounts in order to take care of Nancy.”
My eyes slide over to Bones for a quick second and then back to him. “For Nancy? Why?”
“Because she was on the company policy up until we divorced. She didn’t own any shares of the company. I was paying out of pocket.”
