Kidnapped by the Billionaire Bad Boy: A Dark Romance by Kiki Bowman

Author:Kiki Bowman [Bowman, Kiki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2021-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

I f you lay a hand on her, I’ll break it, Logan. Every bone in every fucking finger!’ Stevie-O bellows down the phone and my men snicker in the background.

I grin. Respect reclaimed. They were right, I had gone soft on the bastard—let our history affect my judgement. But fuck that. My men need to get paid and so do I. We didn’t borrow, barter and bribe our way to the top, only to be taken down by some ex-thug and his new too-good-for-shit attitude.

Old friend or not, goddaughter or not, Stevie-O was going to pay me every last cent I’d loaned.

‘I wouldn’t expect anything less from you, Stevie-O.’

There’s a beat of silence as he bristles at his old clan name.

‘Breaking bones is what you do best isn’t it?’

Another lengthy silence that I end with a wicked chuckle.

‘Look Stevie-O, all you have to do is meet my demands by Thursday, and you get your precious daughter back. No scandal—no knowledge of your history leaking out. Just good old-fashioned business.’

‘I can’t get you that kind of money in three days. Not without drawing attention.’ There’s still a bite to his tone but he’s settled down. Reminded of what he stands to lose if he crosses me. If he tries to bring this to the police or settle it in some other way that doesn’t involve paying me.

‘That’s not really my problem now, is it?’

I move to slam the phone down but he cries, ‘No. Please.’

I hesitate. Anyone else I’d have already ended the call but fuck me, I hesitate.

‘Give me two weeks,’ I hear him plea and reluctantly I pull the phone back to my ear. ‘Two weeks and I can get you your money. Don’t hurt her,’ he gasps.

‘One week.’

‘Ten days,’ he sobs. His voice cracks and it cuts something in me. But my men are watching and I won’t have any of them getting ideas about me going soft. Thinking they can take me out and take over the operation.

‘One week or twenty-four hours, Stevie-O. The choice is yours—and that’s only because we used to be family.’

Like brothers.

He gulps, loud enough that I hear it through the phone.

I try to relish the terror in him, the same way Tony does. He stands beside me, listening in. His grin’s crooked. But I just want the fucking call to end. Want my damn money and want to move on with my life. Bludgeon and bribe a few strangers instead.

Steven’s voice is barely audible when he murmurs, ‘One week.’

And this time I don’t give him chance to say anything else. I slam the phone down as if it were on fucking fire.

*

It’s over a day before I return to Adrianna’s room. I’d meant to check on her earlier but an opportunity presented itself; the chance to pay Keith the Cutter a visit and beat the bastard bloody. We left the shithead without his knees and a warning carved onto his back. I grin at my bruised knuckles; adrenaline still thick in my blood.

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