Chapter 12
“You have got yourself into a real mesi, son. I got a call from a buddy in the police department telling me they am looking for you. I have sources telling me you are ined in the Russian mo and I hear you owe them money. What the lock in wong with you?” Lasked had let mone anger than I had intended seep into my voke and Simon koked pied
“And why in map of this your bedrever?” he asked.
“you are my son. If you are trying is some up your life. I will make it my business to un–screw it. Or do you prefer to be sent to jail or end up in ware brothel to earn back the money you book?” |
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“Right. Your briliani plan to send the mafia after your ex–wife? What the fuck in that? Do you mom call ihut a plant Throwing an innocent woman under the bun to coves youmeitt” I was getting angrier by the minute and I knew I needed in dial it down or I would do something that would cause the rib between Simen and me to expand to the print that it couldn’t be repaired.
“How did you know tha?” Simonaded. His anger had disappeared and he just locked unprived.
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~~“Well, if she just pays back the money to them she will be tre,” Skrom told me. It took all of my self constraint not to jump over the coffee table and punch him in the fare.
From what I have garsoed you how been working with them for some time. Do you really think they will let her go if she gives them money?” I asked, clenching my se. He shrugged, fucking
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| my problem.” The statement vor single and said without any feeling.
You are okay with letting Hat the fall in your dealing? Lake, tanned of his lack of caring. I had no fond motions towards his mother, the was a bitch, and a cheat. But old never put her in a situation like the one he had put Hana in. If nothing the fo the memories of our first time together, it had been a good time beker all the shit happened and I saw her for who
“She should have thought about that befreshed for advance. I won ́t prosect someone who isn’t mine,” Simon told me.
“She should have expected you to send the Ruslan after her as a consequeres of divercing a Do you hear how that and sun mate. You don’t send the mafia after mene jut Because your relationship didn’t work out.” I was trying to get through to Si, to make him we the unhinged reasing he was making.
“Look, you don’t get it. She was mine, 1 protected. She decides the wanted to her own thing and not be mine, well back that Then she doesn’t get my protection with Simon explained.
“She wouldn’t have needed any protection if you hadn’t give her stole money,” I pointed out. He shrugged again and I felt my hands clour into fats
“Had to teach her a lesson when she tried to stake claim to what was mine. She thought she could black mail me using my company that I had built from the ground. I had to show her you don’t dos like that. Not to me. To be honest I was kind of surprised, I didn’t think she had it in het was my parting gift to her, a Bral lesson,” Simon said, chuckling, Lesson? What was he even
“The disappointed in you, Streon. This is not how a man belavek,” 1 bold him
“Nothing new there, dad. T’in tan old for that shit to work anyway.” I finched as I heard the cold tone in his voice.
I’m sorry if that is how you we things. I have been proud of you for most of your life. I haven’t been as present as I should have been, and that is my fault for choosing the line of work 1 dad. It has never meant I don’t low you, or that I’m not proud of you. But the decision, you are making at the monest are not good one”
“Liden, Fra not interested in this, whatever this is,” Sinon told me. He was geaturing back and forth between the two of us. “How you hundle your women is up to you. But I know how to suka kate my wooden respect me and know who is in charge. Hana should have known better than to go against me. She know the commequences has there something be?” I looked at my son for a while in serion. I wondered where I had gone wrong, there were so many times throughout the year when I had been away. I sighed and up
anded him my batwo card as I didn’t know if he still had my be. “Day or night, you call and I will answer. Don’t be too proud to ask for help if you need it.” He scuffed but fucked the card in the pocket. He halowed me out and closed the door behind me the second I was outside. I felt depressed as I walked to my car and drove off. My fead thought was to plas at wwning with a bottle of malt and brooding, Bat the thought of Hana made me change my mind. What if she called and need help and I was too drunk to do sothing? It was getting late, the sun wo sinking below the buikings as I due back on the city. I supped by my fate Indian restaurant and bought are food then I could eat. At least that I would how bebow be the flowing day. As I sat in my aquariat, howing the TV turned on to start wasting a nature documentary to have some background noor and whing my Lake out, my phone buteel. This time at was laun
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She didn’t continue that trin of thought and I let it go, thinking it was just a random thought that had popped into her head. Her mind seemed to be a little unfocused. We continued texting an | finished my food and as I put the lowers away. Hana mentioned a show she was watching and I switched to it as well. That lead to an ongoing commentary between the two of us. It was one of the best evenings I had spent in a while and I found myself laughing more than once. The break from my usual routine of going through emails and reading reports wins welcome.
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Bonnie Reid Quast
wow Simon really needs someone to put him in his place.
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