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“For how long?”
“Until I think you’ve learned your lesson, paid for your mistakes, paid back all the cash you stole from me. Not to mention the gun. Where is my gun, Madison?”
“I left it in Virginia rather than try to take it with me on a commercial flight.”
He nods, clearly not all that pissed about me having the firearm for protection. Then he asks, “Did you…have to use it on anyone?”
“Just Eli,” I admit.
“Eli?” Now Daddy’s attention returns to the silent man. “Show me.”
Eli lifts his pant leg, revealing the gauze wrapped around his calf.
“Holy shit,” Daddy whispers. “Youshot Eli?”
“Yes.”
My father pulls me into another backbreaking hug, this time even rocking us back and forth. “I’m so damn proud of you. You really are all grown up.”
“You’re proud of her for shooting Eli?” Vanessa asks with a scoff.
“Yes,” Daddy says when he lets me go again, this time with a gigantic smile on his face. “She was protecting herself. The onlyway I could be even more proud of her would be if Eli were dead.”
“Hey!” Eli huffs and Vanessa barks out a laugh.
“You probably deserved it,” Vanessa tells Eli. “I bet you snuck up on Madison or went all crazy and angry, telling her you were going to drag her ass back to Vegas. Is that it?” she asks me.
I nod while watching Eli who is starting to sweat a little. “Something like that. We argued about me returning to Vegas for a few days before I finally caved.”
“A few days?” my father exclaims. Now he advances on Eli, grabbing him up by his lapels. “You knew my daughter was alive and safe fordaysand you didn’t tell me? We just spoke yesterday!”
“I wanted to surprise you,” Eli says, not sounding very scared of Daddy hurting him anymore. I bet he would be if my father knew Eli’s dick was shoved deep down my throat when he last spoke to him on the phone. Oh, I assumed right away it was my father calling, so I tried my hardest to get Eli to grunt or groan as he came during the call. Worked too.
“Surprise me?”
“I would have called you if I couldn’t convince Maddie to do the right thing and come home voluntarily.”
My father drops him like a hot potato, blue eyes narrowed. “Maddie?” he says it like it’s a disgusting swear word. “Did you just call her Maddie?” Looking between the two of us, Daddy says, “Are you two…friends or something now?”
“God, no, I hate him,” I say honestly. I do hate him, even if I’m about ninety-nine percent sure he’ll end up in my bed again or I’ll end up in his.
“Good. That’s good,” Daddy says, sounding relieved. “Because if you had laid a hand on her…”
“He would gut you like a fish,” another man’s voice finishes for him from the doorway.
I turn to find my redheaded sister and a beautiful blond man taking in the scene in Daddy’s office.
“You must be Madison,” the stranger says.
“Cole?” I ask. Before he can respond my eyes are drawn to my sister’s belly that is no longer flat. “Wow, you really are knocked up. I didn’t believe it despite Eli telling me several times, but I can’t really say I’m surprised, you dirty little slut.”
“Where haveyoubeen, you dirty whore?” Cass asks with a grin as I approach her.
“Here and there,” I answer before we embrace each other in a hug probably for the first time in our lives around her baby bump.
“I don’t care for how you two speak to each other,” Daddy grumbles, making us both smile even wider.
“I thought Eli said you were in New York,” I say to Cass, ignoring our father.
