“I should have made you stay at home,” he grumbles. “Now let’s get the fuck out of here.”
I don’t need asking twice; this room makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like a church social. We’re almost at the exit when I spot a ladies’ bathroom.
“Hang on, I need to pee.” I shouldn’t have drunk champagne earlier. Alcohol and nerves have given me a baby bladder.
“Be quick.”
I nod and dash into the bathroom, which is blessedly empty. After relieving myself and washing my hands, I head back outside, only to find Luka and Kane aren’t there and the entire room is in a state of chaos. Naked people run amok like cockroaches trying to evade the bug exterminator.
What the fuck?
46
Luka
“I’m going to have to bleach my eyes later,” Kane mutters when two guys stroll past, their dicks swinging free.
“It’s okay, you can come out of the closet now,” I tease, which makes him glare all the more. Just as he’s about to fire something rude back at me, he freezes and gazes across the room.
Remington’s arrived. Like Lorenzo, he’s not wearing a mask. He’s accompanied by two men, one of them a big fucker in a suit that’s a size too small. The dude looks like his jacket’s seams will bust open any second now.
Has he been chomping steroids for breakfast?
“It’s time I caused that diversion,” Kane says. “Can you wait for Chiara and then take her back upstairs?”
I nod, and he moves purposefully across the room toward Remington, who’s paused to watch a skinny blonde woman suck some dude’s cock. If I squint, the woman is a bit like Vivian, only younger. I guess the man has a type. I raise my mask to get a better look. Yeah, they could be twins. It’s creepy as hell.
Does he know his wife’s missing? He has to by now. Vivian’s staff would have called him the moment we left. At least I’d have assumed so.
Kane reaches the trio of men. Without warning, he throws a punch at the stacked guy. There’s an audible crack, and the man drops like a stone, out cold.
Remington gapes in shock at the sudden onset of violence, but that’s common; most people don’t react straight away when it’s unexpected. The second guy goes to pull a gun, but Kane is quicker on the draw. Dude number two goes down while Remington tries to flee.
He’s not fast enough. Kane pistol-whips him, sending him to the floor in a heap.
The gunshot acts as a rude awakening for everyone in the vicinity. Several women scream in panic and everyone scatters. Some run this way while others head for a second exit on the far side. I assume that leads to a fire escape, but I’m not totally sure.
Just as I’m about to burst into the ladies’ bathroom to drag Chiara out, a hand grabs my shoulder and yanks me back.
“Imagine my surprise when I saw my son here earlier,” my father says. “And with Kane, no less.” I freeze. Lorenzo has always intimidated me, even though I’m taller than him.
“I thought you’d decided I wasn’t your son?”
He laughs. “You might be my bastard, but no, you’re not my son. Then again, seeing as how Angelo has proved such a disappointment, maybe you’ll get a promotion.”
“No thanks. I’d rather suck a bag of dicks.”
He sneers at me. “Pity those idiots didn’t do a better job of drugging you.”
I’m so shocked at his words that I don’t fight back when he pushes me into a nearby corner. My father’s no longer as big as he once was, but he’s surprisingly strong.
“That was you?”My own fathertried to kill me while staging it as a suicide? I’m speechless.
“Call it killing two birds with one stone. Get rid of the kid I’m embarrassed of while diverting Angelo’s attention away from my business activities. I was hoping to get rid of his waste of space wife, too, but that plan failed.” He sighs. “If you want a job done properly, do it yourself.”
His cruel words ricochet around my brain.
He tried to kill me.
