Teszner snorts, jutting his chin in my direction. “His kid is nothing of mine.”
Tatiana gives him a pitying look, but the sorrow in her eyes intensifies with her unshed tears, making those green pools appear brighter than usual.
That’s it. I’ve fucking heard enough.
I grab the napkin that sits next to the lawyer’s untouched cup of coffee and wipe the splatters of blood from my hand and sleeve before scrunching it up and dropping it in Teszner’s lap.
He follows me with his gaze as I go back to the other side of the table and take up a position next to Tatiana. He’s acting brave, but I don’t miss how his eyes are bouncing around in his sockets.
I hold out a hand. One of my men places the folder I brought in it.
I slide it across the table to Teszner. “As my wife, Tatiana signed over her shares and her percentage of all property ownership to her husband for management. Everything she inherited belongs to me.”
Teszner must’ve expected as much, but he still opens the folder with his good hand and flips through the documents like a vulture looking for a piece of meat overlooked on a bone.
I give the lawyer a copy. “As you’ll see, I already bought up the shares that came onto the market. That makes me the sole owner of Teszner Agglomerate.”
Teszner’s nostrils flare. He slams the folder shut and sits there stewing in anger and blood.
I plant my hands on the table and lean closer, taking great pleasure from dealing the blow. “I don’t only own the company and the house, Teszner. I own everything, including your sister.”
Tatiana flinches, and for some reason, the gesture bothers me more than it should.
Teszner observes me from under his eyebrows, letting every rotten part of him spill into his mocking grin. “Not everything.”
I don’t break eye contact with that motherfucker, but I feel Tatiana’s gaze burning on me. The questions she doesn’t give voice to are palpable in the air. I’m attuned enough to her to know what’s going through her mind.
Teszner acts cocky, but it’s all for show. He’s already pissed himself under the table. “So what? Is this the part where you kill me?”
“Kill you?” I laugh, the sound macabre and full of dark anticipation. “That’s too easy, Teszner.”
Wincing, he reels.
That’s right. His suffering has just begun. He’s too much of a coward to end his own life. We both know it. He’s going to live every second of the slow torment I’ve got planned for him.
I adjust my jacket. “My men will escort you and your lawyer from the building once our discussion is over. All computers and files will remain on the premises. You can leave your keys on your way out.”
Panic flashes in Teszner’s eyes before he manages to hide it.
I pull back Tatiana’s chair. She searches my eyes as she stands, more questions running through them, but she doesn’t voice them.
I nod at Reino.
He goes to her side. “Mrs. Morici.”
Teszner balls his good hand into a fist at the sound of that.
Tatiana doesn’t look back at either her brother or me as she follows Reino from the room.
Trusting my men to keep her safe, I pick up the knife. “Now, Teszner. Where were we before my wife demanded her answers?”
Chapter
Nineteen
Tatiana
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