Page 75 of Vexatious Queen

An uncontrollable rage filled me as I stood up.

“Lo ammazzo quando lo trovo.”

My hand clenched into a fist as I pictured doing what I should’ve done years ago.

Ding.

I looked down at my phone, hoping that Mr. Valentino had finally gotten his head out of his ass and sent me the camera footage. Instead, it was a text from Paul.

P: Vadin at Wayward.

“Are you fucking kidding me?” I growled, snatched my phone, and ran for the office door.

“What is it,” Marcus asked, hot on my heels.

“Vadin is at the school.”

I stormed outside, startling the guards standing nearby.

“Son of a bitch,” Marcus swore. “Let’s go. We’re mobile,” he yelled, before jumping into the driver’s seat.

If Vadin thought that he was going to come here and fuck with me, my family, or my daughter…he was going to learn just how ruthless I’d become since the last time I saw him.

Present Time

Ren

“Can I ask why you’re here now? Why have you decided to reach out after all this time?”

Liam and Dean Henry shadowed us like guards as we left the office.

He glanced at me and offered a small smile.

“Because I⁠—”

The front doors of the school exploded open, and cold air and snow whipped into the foyer. Men in black suits fanned out in a wave of muscle as students standing nearby shrieked and ran. My father was at the head of the storm like a force of nature.

Coat flaring.

Fists clenched.

Face carved in a murderous rage.

I’d never seen him anything but a perfect picture of composed strength, but the look in his eyes could kill, and if that were true, then Vadin was a dead man.

“Edmundo?”

Vadin took a step back, his hands up as if that would stop him.

My father didn’t slow. He hit Vadin like a hurricane, grabbed him by the front of his suit, and lifted him clean off the ground. Vadin hung there—my father’s equal in height, but he looked like a rag doll in his grip.

“Edmundo…wait…please.”

Eddie marched Vadin backward and slammed him against the wall with a thud. Impossibly, it felt like the whole building shook.

Students poured in from every hallway, and the crowd swelled until it was a sea of eyes all watching with rapt attention. I spotted Nash and Myles sprinting over as Liam stepped in front of me like a human shield.

“You dare come here?” Eddie’s voice thundered. “You ruined my life. You broke your daughter’s heart. I told you—next time I saw you, I’d tear your throat out with my bare hands.”