Love Under Two Strong Men by Cara Covington

Author:Cara Covington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Book/Menage
ISBN: 9781619260535
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Published: 2011-10-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Miguel Ramos felt the surge of his power as the silence around him stretched out. At the moment, not even the birds seemed inclined to sing. Usually, when he enjoyed this part of his private garden, a plenitude of birds would serenade him. Today, likely, they sensed the predator in him, and kept still.

He took one moment to focus inward, to appreciate the strength that flowed through him. Surrounding himself with bodyguards and servants was all well and good. But sometimes it became necessary to demonstrate exactly why it was he was the man everyone called “Don Miguel.”

He kept an iron-fisted control on his empire, which meant not only knowing and controlling everyone and everything within it. It meant keeping fear alive in the hearts of the men and women he owned.

Alfonso Flores stood before him. The young man’s usual insouciance was beginning to give way to caution. Caution, Ramos knew, would soon give way to fear.

Alfonso had grown up in the same streets that had forged Ramos into the man he’d become. He’d had great hope for the young man who’d come to his employ two years before. He’d shown such promise.

But for Alfonso, the lessons of survival gleaned in the gutters of los barrios had only penetrated skin-deep. They had not forged him, and his improved circumstances had only made him soft, lazy, and arrogant.

Alfonso Flores had turned out to be a disappointment, and Miguel Ramos no longer tolerated disappointment.

“You will explain to me how it was Señor Davies managed to elude your surveillance, por favor.”

“He was determined to lose me, Señor Ramos. He must have spotted me as soon as he arrived at the airport in Dallas. It proves that he is a man not to be trusted.”

Ramos gave the boy points for creativity. He felt certain that other men would buy such reasoning, and in fact, what Alfonso said might very well be true.

“Señor Davies’s abuela lives in Dallas. Did you know that, Alfonso?”

Confusion lit the young man’s face for just a moment, and then he smiled. “I did not. If you wish to make an example of Señor Davies, I will be happy to kill the old woman for you.”

Another time, Ramos would likely have excused Alfonso. He was young, not yet seasoned, and certainly believed himself loyal enough. And had he not so recently suffered the loss of several million dollars worth of diamonds, Ramos knew that he very likely would have.

Ramos sat back in his comfortable chair, crossed his legs, and let his hands rest easily on the arms of it.

“I don’t like failure. Ever. It is not Señor Davies who has failed me, Alfonso. He did what any man about to visit his grandmother would do. He perceived a threat and acted in such a way as to evade that threat.” Had Davies not called him that very morning, Ramos would have been more inclined to believe Alfonso. But he had called, explained that he’d been aware of his shadow, and had chosen to evade rather than kill the man.

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