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Right now, the bigger threat was standing right in front of me.
He shrugged again. “I don’t know,” his voice dragged out. “How about we start with a couple of mill and go from there?”
Was.
He.
Fucking.
Unhinged?
Well, yeah, he was.
This shouldn’t surprise me.
And I had to play along and not let him know exactly how scared he had me. I’d been dealing with my father’s bullshit forever. I knew how to play this.
“Oh, just a couple million dollars? Is that all?” I narrowed my eyes. “I’ll go ask Carlo to write me out a check. Or maybe I’ll break open Dani’s piggybank.”
The grin slid from his face. “You’ll do what you’ll have to do to get it.”
I shook my head and rolled my eyes. “I can’t get that kind of money from them.”
A familiar angry expression covered his face. One I remembered well. It often came with swats and slaps.
Sometimes a fist or two.
“I suggest you figure it the fuck out,” he gritted through clenched teeth. “Or the Sovrano brothers are about to get an education on exactly who they’re fucking every night.”
Keep calm.
There was no way I’d win a battle with this man right now. I had to outsmart him.
But how?
I needed to get back home so I could leave and start a new life somewhere far, far away from Carlo and Stefan. And I needed to do it as soon as possible.
“Fine. But I can only get that much money at home. It’s impossible to steal that kind of money here. I don’t know my way around.”
His frown grew deeper. “You know how to speak fucking Italian. Do you think I’m stupid? You can get me the money here. Or I’ll have a convo with your lovers.”
I took a breath before I spoke again, “I know I speak Italian. I haven’t forgotten that. What I don’t have are their account numbers here. I only have access to that information in the States. The banks here are strict. And they don’t know me like the ones back in Chicago.”
It seemed like he was mulling this over in that tiny brain of his. I crossed my fingers and hoped he’d buy it.
Because there was no way in the world I was going to steal anything from Carlo and Stefan. Or anyone else.
Not anymore.
That part of my life was over.
I made that deal with myself a long time ago, and I wasn’t going back.
Nope.
My father would just have to find someone else to terrorize and bribe.
Because his scare tactics didn’t work on me. Not now. Not since I knew it was time to get away. To leave. And never come back.
