King Maker by Terri E. Laine

Author:Terri E. Laine [Laine, Terri E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Six

With yesterday’s The Wall Street Journal splayed out in front of me like a tablecloth over the desk, I flexed it, causing it to fold halfway. Despite how easy it was to get an e-subscription, I enjoyed the feeling of a real newspaper in my fingers. I lifted it up in order to read an article lower on the page.

I felt scarred by my time with Bailey. Touching her had only opened a wound and created more of a need for her particular kind of bandage.

There had been no other choice but for me to leave. Had I not, I wouldn’t have given her the option to ever walk away from me.

Griff blasted through the connecting door of our hotel rooms, swaying on his feet. It hadn’t taken him long to get plastered.

“Whi ye fanny bawbag dae ‘e noo?” He only paused for a second before changing to more English. “Ye are like fud over a fud.” He laughed at his own joke.

He’d basically called me a pussy over pussy.

“Speak for yourself.”

Griff came and slung an arm over my shoulder. “The lassies are making us radge. Dae yer fancy gon fur a wee swallae doon the pub?”

I wondered which lassies he was referring to. He hadn’t spoken about what happened between him and Lizzy and he hadn’t mentioned Lilly.

I tried to shrug him off. “Yer already pished. Yer dinnae need a pub.”

“Did she say aye? No, yes—she’s American, though she could be Scottish with her wee red hair.”

Her hair wasn’t red anymore. She’d used the black dye I’d regretted giving her. The color didn’t suit her. Though it was probably safer. Especially with the scheme we had planned, assuming she’d agree to it.

“We probably need to come up with another plan,” I admitted.

He glared at me as much as he could, still swaying on his feet. “Like I said, whi ye fanny bawbag dae ‘e noo?”

What had I done? “I fecked up.” Rather I’d fucked her and left her.

He chuckled. “Just admit it, mate. You fecking love the shite out of that one.”

He didn’t know the half of it.

“Go sleep that shite off. We have work tomorrow.”

This had to end soon. This was so much bigger than money. If my enemy won, I could not only lose my company and my freedom, but my son. And that was one thing that couldn’t happen with Keely considered his next of kin.

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