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THREE
Kayla
I walkedout of the restaurant with Narek at my side.
“Were you trying to be inconspicuous? Because you definitely failed,” I said, looking him up and down.
The black suit and black button-down practically screamed “mafia,” and when he’d stood in the restaurant, I knew every eye had been on him.
He laughed softly as he opened the SUV door. After I got in, he walked around the vehicle and got into the driver’s seat.
“I wasn’t trying to be inconspicuous. I was trying to be polite,” he said.
I quirked a brow. “How so?”
“Well, I didn’t want to interrupt your…meeting, but it was time to go,” he said.
Then, he pulled off and guided the car into traffic without asking for a destination.
I snorted and then pointed out that fact. “I didn’t even tell you where I was going.”
He shrugged. “You didn’t need to. Boss told me where to take you, so that’s where you’re going.”
“And am I to assume that you told the ‘boss’ who I was with when he called you? Or did you call him?” I asked.
Narek had the decency to blush. “Sorry, Kayla, but—”
I shook my head, then gave him what I hoped was a reassuring smile.
“Don’t worry about it. I know who pays the bills around here,” I said.
Narek shrugged again. “Yeah, and you’re less likely to shoot me in my knees than Elias, so if I had to pick…”
I laughed, some part of me marveling that I could crack jokes with a mob driver, who was driving me to see a mob boss, who was my employer and nemesis.
But I didn’t blame Narek.
He was just doing his job, and it wouldn’t be fair of me to let my bullshit with Elias affect him.
I stayed quiet during the rest of the ride, preparing myself to face the inevitable fallout.
I should have answered when he’d called the first time, but then, I wasn’t his pet, wasn’t at his beck and call.
Or at least I told myself that.
Still, the truth was, Elias was in charge.
He knew it, and I knew it.
That I would never admit it was the source of the tension between us, at least one of them.
Like I had promised myself all those years ago, I would do what it took to protect the people I cared about, but I wouldn’t give up my dignity.
No matter what.
“Have a good day, Narek,” I said when he pulled to a stop in front of Elias’s building.
He nodded, then watched as I walked into the building.
