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Meaning not provoking the birthday brat is in our best interest.
“Why are we here, Weslington?”I ask, fingers folding with hers to aid in the silencing.“Why did you yank us out of the house and demand a meeting?”Tightening my hold precedes me further investigating, “What is it that you couldn’t send in an encrypted email or text?”
“Father will be dead soon.”
“That’s information we already had,” Garcia grumbles.“Henceyou blackmailing Zero to begin with.”
“I preferbargainingtoblackmailing.” Thaddeus devilishly smirks.“Better branding.Better PR.”
“And you better get to the point,” Salay demands.
“An inside source on his medical team – a sourceI havethat my sister does not – is reporting that he is now deteriorating faster than he was.”
Quirking an eyebrow can’t be stopped.“How much faster?”
“Exponentially.”
“In other words?”Garcia cautiously investigates.
“You have less than a week to provide me with proof that you’ve located the treasure I need to guarantee my place on the throne, or I will use every pull I have to guarantee that Fiorenzo is not only extradited but lives just long enough to be.Publicly.Executed.”
Chapter 18
Garcia
We can’t afford rain.
Not now.
Not because it makes our resident Ariel cranky – although it does – but because every minute, we’re trapped in here, in this beach house – that’s beginning to oddly feel like home with the way all of their things are haphazardly spread out – means we’re not outthere,on the water looking for treasure I’m fairly certain doesn’t exist.
Except Ineedit to exist.
Ineedit to exist because I have yet to find an alternate solution to keep the man, I lovesafe.
And I have to keep him safe.
Them safe.
It’s my job.
Not as their attorney but as their…partner.
Person?
Are we people?
Together?
More than a fling?
Can we be more than a fling?
Fuck.
What’s even the right term for that?
For when there are three of us?
