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Father glowered at Silas, but still answered. “I had a PI look for you. Since you weren’t at the house you’d inherited, he found out you recently adopted a cat from here.”
“A PI?!”
Damn, was he that desperate to get me back? Me? The man who didn’t even know what I did while working for him? That couldn’t be right.
“Yep,” Silas said. “And then he came in here and tried to threaten us into giving him your current address.”
“You can’t just waltz in here and threaten my friends!”
Again, he waved me off like I was a child. “I’m your father, Cassian,” he huffed, as if that gave him the permission to act like a jerk.
“This was so not how I planned today to go,” I whined, letting my head fall back in anger. “I had my ceremony today withJeremy,” I explained to Silas, Greg, and Rowan, the latter glaring at Father from the corner.
“Really?” Greg asked, sounding excited. “That’s awesome! Congrats!”
“Yeah,” Silas agreed, smiling. “Congrats. If only you could be with him instead of here.” He shot a glare at my father.
“For fucks sake, Cassian!” Father snapped. “You’re with a man now too? I have Vanessa waiting for you back home!”
“Who?” I asked, coming up blank.
“Her father is our biggest competitor. When you marry her, we can merge the businesses,” he explained, talking to me like I was a child.
“Eh!?”
My stunned reaction was enough to make Father look at me like he always did when I disappointed him. “Youwillmarry her.”
“The fuck he will,” Rowan snapped, joining my other side. “He’s engaged to be married already.”
Father scoffed at that. “I’ll throw some money at the man, make him go away happily.”
“The fuck?!” I gasped. I had no idea my father could be that cruel.
“Like that would work,” Greg laughed mockingly. I had to agree; it wasn’t as if it would work.
“All you’re good for, Cassian, is a pretty face. We all know it. Now, come home and put it to good use,” Father demanded, tapping his watch impatiently.
“What did you just say to him?” Greg snarled, moving in on my father.
“Yeah,” Silas agreed. “I would love to hear you repeat that.”
“Dammit, Cassian!” Father snapped, eying my friends with disgust. “Are you fucking the whole town?”
A loud crack filled the air, then Father was sprawled across the floor, his nose clearly broken and bleeding furiously. Silas wiped his knuckles against his dark T-shirt, growling at my now unconscious father.
“Thank you,” I whispered, not sure how I should react.
“No worries,” Silas smiled at me. “You’re pack, Cass. We protect our own.”
Well, I guess I was fucked then, because I was in Jeremy’s pack, not theirs. I was about to remind him of that, but he held up his hand. “I’ll explain once we get you back to Jeremy. He’s likely worried and he can’t enter our territory without an invite.”
“Oh.”
“Rowan, you take Cass’ car and ditch his father somewhere. Greg, you drive with me and Cass back to Jeremy. We’ll be allowed to cross because we have Cass with us.”
“Shotgun!” I yelled, running outside with Greg right behind me.
Chapter Twenty-One
