“Kane Morgan.” He attempts to step around the guards, but they stop him.
He sighs as if they’re nothing more than a nuisance, and then he shocks the hell out of me when he adds, “I believe you all are responsible for killing the majority of my family.”
“Fuck,” Lorenzo hisses. “I knew I recognized the name.” He steps toward Kane. “You’re Kane Morgan, owner of Morgan Enterprises.”
“The one and only.” Kane grins, but it’s not the same grin he gave me last night. It’s cold and calculated.
“And what the fuck do you think you’re doing here?” Matteo asks, joining the conversation. “You thought you’d come in here and what? Take us out in the middle of a restaurant that’s under our protection with our guards standing right here?”
Kane laughs, and my heart plummets because this man—the one I thought was different, the one I opened up to last night—is clearly a threat to my family.
“That’s not the kind of revenge I’m interested in,” Kane says to Matteo. “The best kind of revenge is success.” He unbuttons and opens his suit jacket. “Feel free to check me. I’m not armed.” He tosses the gift to Matteo, who catches it and drops it onto the table behind him. “For my niece or nephew.” He glances at Dani. “Congrats, by the way. It’s a shame my brother isn’t here to watch his child grow up.”
His words cause a shiver to race down my spine because only family knows that their baby isn’t biologically Matteo’s. She was conceived when Dani’s husband kidnapped and raped her, but the moment Matteo found out she was pregnant, he accepted the baby as his own. They told us the truth, not wanting there to be secrets in our family, but nobody else knows.
Except Kane.He knows, which means he’s been stalking my family.
“Don’t fucking talk to my wife,” Matteo sneers. “That baby is ours. End of story.”
Kane raises his arms in a silentI’m not a threatsort of way, and the guards pat him down. Once they’ve confirmed he’s not carryingany kind of weapon, they nod toward my brothers to let them know he’s clean.
“So many deaths over women.” Kane shakes his head. “All I want is to save my father’s legacy.”
“Your father?” Dominick steps toward him. “You mean the man who kept you hidden?”
“You mean the man who kept his cards close to his chest,” Kane replies. “Who left me his entire empire.”
As I try to connect the dots, Lorenzo says, “The third party who bought Rothschild International,” but I have no idea what he’s talking about since my brothers don’t keep me in the loop regarding their business dealings.
When I returned home, my relationship with my brothers was a bit shaky because I had spent years thinking they knew Anthony had raped me and Andrey had forced me to have an abortion, only to learn that they had been kept in the dark.
I was pissed at Dominick for forcing me to come home, but I also understood that I had been hiding from Harbor Point, not wanting to face my past.
I thought Dominick would ask me to join the family business, especially since Peyton did, but he never broached the subject. And since I let my pride get the better of me, I never brought it up to him, in fear of him turning me away. Which is honestly for the best because I don’t have the desire to work for Antonov Enterprises—I think, deep down, I just wanted the option to do so.
“Joseph was grooming me to work alongside him. Only he died before I could officially do so,” Kane says, forcing me to snap out of my thoughts … because what in theJerry Springer? Joseph, Anthony’s father, who wasalsoEnrique’s father, is Kane’s father as well?
“He knew Anthony was a loose cannon,” Kane continues. “His only hope was the marriage he arranged with your family …” His eyes go to mine, and bile rises in my throat as I realize, last night, he knew who I was. “And Enrique was too emotional,” he adds. “He never would’ve cut it in the business world.”
“You don’t seem too torn up about your brother’s death,” Dominick notes.
“He chose to make it personal,” Kane says, his gaze bouncing from me to Dani. “I loved my brother, but I warned him to keep it strictly business. He chose to avenge our father’s death his way, and he got what was coming to him. He was a grown man who knew the risks.”
Business.
That’s all I was to Kane last night.
Business.
That’s why he’d sought me out.
Let me take control.
It was part of his revenge.
“And what makes you think we won’t kill you the same way we killed the rest of your family?” Matteo says.
“I haven’t done anything to you.” Kane shrugs, not taking the threat to his life seriously—even though we both know my brother would shoot him point-blank in the head without thought. “And from what I’ve observed, you both are honorable men.”
