Her Feud by Emma Tallon

Author:Emma Tallon [Tallon, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Ray’s face darkened until it was a deep shade of beetroot, the veins in his neck protruding so far that Connor was convinced he was about to have a heart attack. Pacing up and down behind his wide walnut desk in his home office, he ranted and raved, almost wild with fury. Connor’s earlier confidence had now dwindled, and he cringed internally as he took the verbal beating.

‘What the fuck did you think you were doing?’ Ray demanded. ‘Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a name up the chain once a link’s been broken? Do you?’

Connor swallowed, forcing himself to stand tall and not flinch. ‘No,’ he admitted. ‘But I’m guessing it’s pretty hard.’

‘It’s almost fucking impossible,’ Ray roared. He turned in a small circle, rubbing his hard, rugged face before facing Connor again and pointing a finger at him across the desk. ‘You’re fucking lucky,’ he said in a low, dangerous voice. ‘It took me all fucking day and several fucking favours that were owed to me, but I managed to make contact and smoothed this over. But it cost me.’

‘How much?’ Connor asked.

‘How much?’ Ray bellowed. ‘That’s all you’ve got to say to me, asking me how much your little tantrum cost me?’

‘Yeah, I am,’ Connor countered, holding his ground. ‘How much?’

‘Fifty fucking grand, you defiant little shit.’

Connor clenched his jaw, resisting the urge to punch Ray straight in the mouth. Two of Ray’s closest men stood at the side of the room, watching this dressing-down, and he could tell they were enjoying every minute.

‘So how exactly are you going to pay that off then, eh? Because you’ll damn well pay for your own mistakes here,’ Ray continued.

Connor shook his head. ‘I already have,’ he said calmly, holding Ray’s gaze with a steely confidence.

‘What did you just say?’ Ray’s frown deepened.

Connor glanced at Benny, who sat in a chair a couple of feet away, but he was listening in silence, his face resting on his fist and his eyes cast down. There would be no help for him there. He sighed.

‘The fifty grand’s a one-off, yeah?’ Connor asked. ‘And then you have a direct supply line with this new contact, I’m assuming.’

Ray didn’t answer, but he also didn’t cut him off, so Connor pushed forward. ‘Those cunts were trying to add another six large to each kilo, which, for the twelve and a half you ordered, would have been an extra seventy-five grand.’

Ray’s frown deepened further, but his anger seemed to be waning.

‘On top of that, they were trying to switch out the top-grade coke you ordered for the cheap shit they cut with baby powder on the side. That’s why I went for them. They were trying to screw you over. Screw your firm over. I was just doing my job.’

Ray sniffed and eyed him hard as he thought this over, then shook his head. ‘Nah. They had to be testing you. I ain’t had any problems with them before. You’re new and they knew it.

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