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Chapter 87
Victoria drew herself up to her full height, and when she spoke again her voice had found a second wind, fueled by something that had moved past ordinary anger into the colder, more deliberate territory of someone making promises they fully intend to keep."You must be terribly sick," she said, and she looked at the director the way people look at things they have already decided to discard. "Let me say it again so you understand me clearly. You want me. Victoria. Of the K9 family. To stand in a queue because of him?" She let the word hang in the air like something soiled. "Never. That will never happen. Not today, not in this lifetime."She straightened the strap of her bag with a sharp, precise motion."And as for this disrespect you have just shown me, this utterly shameless disrespect, let me make you a promise right now. This establishment is at risk. You are at risk. Your position, your title, everything you have built in this place." Her eyes were steady and cold. "My grandfath
Chapter 86
Hearing what Hector had just said, Victoria and Elvis felt their jaws tighten involuntarily. The sheer audacity of it. This good-for-nothing fool, this low-life nobody standing in a luxury establishment telling them, the young mistress of the K9 family and the young master of the Bushman family, to go and stand in a queue like ordinary people.Victoria's composure cracked first."Who do you think you are?" she shouted, her voice carrying across the lobby with the sharp, practiced authority of someone used to being obeyed. "To command us? Are you insane? Is there something wrong with your head? You want me—little me, the young mistress of the K9 family—to go and wait in a line like some common customer? Do you honestly think that because of this little scene and whatever nonsense you've concocted, you are actually going to win this?"Elvis placed a hand on her arm, though his own face was taut with fury."Victoria, calm down," he said, trying to regain some composure. "Can't you see? T
Chapter 85
The director's jaw tightened so visibly that the muscles in his temples became sharp lines beneath his skin.He looked at the manager.The manager, who had been standing there slack-faced and disoriented just a moment earlier, now seemed to collapse from the inside out. His knees gave way in a slow, ungraceful descent, and he landed on the marble floor of his own lobby with a sound that echoed off the polished walls, his head dropping forward, his hands coming to rest palm-down on his thighs as though he needed something solid beneath them to confirm that he was still in the physical world."My goodness," he said, and his voice had become something small and hollow. "He did what?" He looked up at the director with eyes that had lost all the fire they had carried minutes earlier. "I did not— I was only— I did not actually—""Shut up," the director said.The two words landed like a door slamming closed.Behind them, Elvis and Victoria had gone very still. The confidence that had been ra
Chapter 84
But the security guards were not looking at Elvis.They were looking at the entrance to the corridor.And then everyone else looked too.The man who walked in did not walk quickly. He did not rush. He moved with the particular, unhurried confidence of someone who has never needed to hurry because rooms rearrange themselves around him before he arrives, the kind of presence that does not announce itself because it does not need to.The director of EJSK Luxury.The lobby went very still.The director's eyes moved across the scene in front of him with the practiced efficiency of someone reading a document he has seen many versions of before, taking in the queue, the frozen attendant, Victoria and Elvis and the women behind them, the manager, and finally Hector, standing in the center of it all with one hand still closed around the manager's wrist.The manager seized on the moment immediately."He's hurting me," he called out, his voice climbing into something that was half report and hal
Chapter 83
He moved.He crossed the distance between himself and Hector in four quick steps and his hand came up and closed around Hector's throat, not a gentle grip, not a warning grip, the full, furious grip of a man who had made a decision he had not entirely thought through yet.Hector's free hand came up immediately.He caught the manager's wrist the same way he had caught Elvis's, the same clean, quiet motion, the same absolute stop, and now he was standing in the middle of the lobby holding two men by their wrists simultaneously, Elvis on one side still unable to pull free, the manager on the other side having just discovered the same problem."What," Hector said, his voice perfectly level, "do you think you are doing?"The manager pulled.His hand did not move.He pulled again, harder, throwing his weight behind it, and the only thing that accomplished was the arrival of real pain, the deep, grinding pressure of fingers around bone, and his expression shifted rapidly from fury into somet
Chapter 82
Hector said nothing. He had asked his question. He was waiting for an answer."Do you think you have options here?" the manager said, his voice rising now, the practiced composure slipping. "Because let me be very clear with you, you do not. You do not have options. You do not have leverage. You do not have anything in this situation except the choice between doing what has been asked of you and facing consequences that I promise you will not enjoy." He straightened, squaring himself up. "Either you get on your knees and you do exactly what they have asked, or I will deal with you myself. Personally. And mercilessly."Hector smiled.It was a small smile, quiet and without cruelty, but it reached his eyes in a way that made it somehow more unsettling than anger would have been."You don't know how to do your job," he said.The manager stared at him."Not even a little bit," Hector continued, his tone almost conversational, the tone of someone making an observation they find genuinely i
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