Filthy Rich by Serena Akeroyd

Author:Serena Akeroyd [Akeroyd, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-05-30T18:30:00+00:00

INESSA

I got the call before Eoghan arrived home.

Even though I’d been expecting it, I hadn’t expected what Victoria was telling me.

“Papa was knee-capped!” she was shrieking, half deafening me, even as I wanted to laugh.

Trust Eoghan to do something weird.

I didn’t know him well enough to consider this standard practice, but what I did know about him was that he didn’t think inside the box.

“Is he okay?” I asked flatly, as I stirred the sauce in the pan, grateful I’d gone to the effort of watching another recipe video on Facebook and had decided to make it just in case Eoghan came back home early from his trip of vengeance.

After all, I’d already pissed him off by not taking a guard with me when I went shopping with Lisandra—stupid, too stupid to live, I feared—and then by not answering his calls or messages when he’d tried to get in touch, which I had to assume was the case or he wouldn’t have asked about my cell.

Food was the least I could do.

But now that I knew the details of what he’d done for me, I figured some limp red sauce wasn’t the way to go about showing my gratitude.

As I stirred the concoction in the pot, eying it dubiously, I inquired, “Are you okay in the house?”

“Of course.” She tutted. “That isn’t the point. You don’t sound cut up about it, Inessa!”

Her chiding tone had me grimacing. “If you’d seen what he’d done to my throat, Victoria, you’d know why I wasn’t all that sympathetic. If Maxim hadn’t called out his name, distracted him—”

“Why do you have to taunt him?” she whined. “I don’t understand you.”

“And I don’t understand you,” I snarled back. “For God’s sake, we’re not dogs to be whipped. Hell, I wouldn’t do what he does to us to a dog!”

“Just do as he asks.”

“Obeying him isn’t something I have to do anymore,” I muttered.

“You’re still his daughter,” Victoria reprimanded sharply.

“If I never have to see him again, it’s too soon.”

“You have to visit him in the hospital! He’s been knee-capped, Inessa.”

“That you even know what that means at your age tells me how shitty a father he is. He choked me for the last time—”

The beeping of the elevator made itself known, and I muttered, “He sold me into marriage, well, he can’t blame me for making the best of what he gave me. My love to you, Victoria, and if you contact Camille—”

“She’s on her way.”

“She is?” I arched a brow, thought about that for a second, then added, “Give her my home number?”

“What’s wrong with your cell? I tried your number—”

“He was tracing me, Victoria, that’s how he knew how to follow me.”

She snorted. “You’re naïve if you didn’t foresee that.”

I shook my head. “This conversation is fucked up because it sounds like you’re condoning every wrong move our father has made.”

“I’m not. A lot of it, Papa does for our protection.”

At her defense, I grunted under my breath. “You can choose to think the sun rises and sets on him, but I don’t.

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