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Chapter 12
“Tell them the truth.” Ethan's voice arrived in the dark place like something from overhead, vast and completely without mercy. “All of it.”Daniel was crying. Real tears, the ugly kind, his whole face broken up by it. “Yes,” he said. “Yes, I did it. I hired them. Six men, I paid for all six of them, and I told them to make sure he didn't walk out of that building.” A gasp, another sob. “And the fire. The fire was my idea. I told them to make sure the restaurant went with him.”Not one person in the room made a sound.“And you did it,” Ethan's voice came again, “because someone asked you to.”“Oliver.” Daniel was shaking. “It was David Oliver. He's been trying to get Victoria away from you for years and he came to me and said if I helped him get rid of you he'd back our family's next development deal. Forty million.” Another cough, more blood on his lips. “Forty million dollars and all I had to do was make sure you died.”“Daniel.” Victoria's voice was very quiet.He couldn't look
CHAPTER 11
“Tell them the truth.” Ethan's voice arrived in the dark place like something from overhead, vast and completely without mercy. “All of it.”Daniel was crying. Real tears, the ugly kind, his whole face broken up by it. “Yes,” he said. “Yes, I did it. I hired them. Six men, I paid for all six of them, and I told them to make sure he didn't walk out of that building.” A gasp, another sob. “And the fire. The fire was my idea. I told them to make sure the restaurant went with him.”Not one person in the room made a sound.“And you did it,” Ethan's voice came again, “because someone asked you to.”“Oliver.” Daniel was shaking. “It was David Oliver. He's been trying to get Victoria away from you for years and he came to me and said if I helped him get rid of you he'd back our family's next development deal. Forty million.” Another cough, more blood on his lips. “Forty million dollars and all I had to do was make sure you died.”“Daniel.” Victoria's voice was very quiet.He couldn't look
Chapter 10
“Tell them the truth.” Ethan's voice arrived in the dark place like something from overhead, vast and completely without mercy. “All of it.”Daniel was crying. Real tears, the ugly kind, his whole face broken up by it. “Yes,” he said. “Yes, I did it. I hired them. Six men, I paid for all six of them, and I told them to make sure he didn't walk out of that building.” A gasp, another sob. “And the fire. The fire was my idea. I told them to make sure the restaurant went with him.”Not one person in the room made a sound.“And you did it,” Ethan's voice came again, “because someone asked you to.”“Oliver.” Daniel was shaking. “It was David Oliver. He's been trying to get Victoria away from you for years and he came to me and said if I helped him get rid of you he'd back our family's next development deal. Forty million.” Another cough, more blood on his lips. “Forty million dollars and all I had to do was make sure you died.”“Daniel.” Victoria's voice was very quiet.He couldn't look
Chapter 9
The impact was not like anything a regular kick produces. There was a force behind it that did not match the motion, something that came from a place deeper than muscle and bone, and the sound it made when it connected was heavy and absolute.Daniel left the ground.His body traveled backward through the air, arms flailing, and everything in his path went with him. Two chairs flipped sideways. A small side table skidded across the floor. People scattered out of the way, stumbling over each other, and Daniel's body covered the full length of the room before his back slammed into the far wall.The impact shook the wall. A framed picture dropped and hit the floor.Daniel crumpled at the base of it.For a moment he didn't move at all.Then a cough tore through him, violent and wet, and blood came with it, spraying across the back of his hand as he pressed it to his mouth. He tried to breathe and it came out ragged, hitching, like something in his chest wasn't sitting right anymore.Ethan
Chapter 8
Daniel hit the floor face-first.He didn't catch himself. His hands never came up in time and his face took the full impact, his nose making a sound that turned every stomach in the room. He rolled onto his side and blood poured freely from his mouth, thick and dark, running down his chin and spreading across the polished floor beneath him. More blood came from his nose, both nostrils, streaming down over his lips. The shape of his face had already changed slightly, his nose sitting crooked where it hadn't been crooked before.He lay there making small, wet sounds.The room was completely frozen.Nobody moved. Nobody spoke. Every single person in that hall stood exactly where they were and stared at the man on the floor and then at Ethan standing over him, and not one of them could put together a sentence.Then it started, low at first, a whisper from somewhere near the back.“Did he just—”“He hit him. He actually hit him.”“Daniel Hargrove. He just slapped Daniel Hargrove.”“Did you
Chapter 7
The words hung in the air.“You're nobody,” Daniel continued, his voice rising now, desperate. “You're a line cook. You're a failure. You come from a family of failures. Your grandfather was a failure, your father was a failure, and you're the worst of all of them because you actually thought you could be something more.” He pointed at Victoria. “She's a Hargrove. She's worth more than your entire bloodline combined. And you—” he jabbed a finger at Ethan's chest, “—you're nothing. You're less than nothing. You're a dog. You should be sleeping in a doghouse, not sitting at her table.”Ethan looked at him for a long moment.Then he said, “Are you finished?”Daniel opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again. “What?”“Are you finished,” Ethan repeated, “or do you have more to say?”Daniel's face twisted. "I can say whatever I want. I can do whatever I want. You can't stop me. You're nothing. You're—"He swung.It wasn't a good punch. His form was wrong, his balance off, his whole body
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