Page 94 of Pregnant By A Rich Demon 2

I took a breath.

Forced myself to think past the rage.

“So, what do we do?”

Winston straightened his jacket.

“We survive,” he said. “Same way we always have.”

I stared at Winston.

At the man who’d walked into my world thirty years ago with nothing but a college degree he couldn’t use and a dream his broke-ass father wouldn’t fund.

“Survive?” The word tasted like acid in my mouth. “That’s the only advice you have for your maniac son being on the loose?”

Winston’s expression didn’t change.

Didn’t even flicker.

“We can solve this simply,” he said, his voice calm. “Let them get a divorce. Because we both know neither of them want to be together and will do everything in their power to make the other suffers for it.”

Something in me snapped.

“That’ll be right up your alley, huh?” I stepped toward him. “Finally done with using me, so you ready to cut and run.”

Winston’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“Victor—”

“You think I didn’t notice?” My voice was rising now. I didn’t care. “You mostly use your docks in New Orleans. A dock you secured withmyfucking connections. You only do enough business in Baton Rouge to throw me a lil’ change, you greedy motherfucker.”

Winston set his glass down.

Slowly.

“I’m the one who turned you onto this street shit,” I continued, the words pouring out now—years of resentment, years of watching him build while I scraped. “When your college boy ass was having a meltdown because daddy stopped paying your tuition. You didn’t want to be a doctor. Something his broke ass scraped up every penny to feed—a dreamhehad for you. He didn’t give a fuck about that MBA you wanted, nah. That’s not the payoff he was waiting for.”

Winston’s eyes flashed with rage.

Good.

Let him feel it.

“I showed you how to get that money,” I said, my voice dropping to something dangerous. “The only difference between me and you is you did better business. You used that college shit and applied it to your illegal shit. You didn’t share not one tipwith me to put me on like I put you on. You didn’t make sure I was able to expand as fast.”

I took another step closer.

“You tossed me pennies while you piled in millions.”

The air between us was electric now.

Charged with thirty years of partnership and betrayal.

“I knew that day would come though,” I said quietly. “That’s why I stacked assurances. I know where all the bodies are buried, Winston.Allof them.”

Acknowledgment flickered in Winston’s eyes.

Recognition that I wasn’t just talking shit.