Love Me: A Billionaire Friends-to-Lovers Romance (Townsend Legacy Book 2) by Tiffany Patterson

Author:Tiffany Patterson [Patterson , Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TMP Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

Diego

I knew this day would eventually come. Ever since I made the decision about my intentions to make Monique completely mine, I knew I would have to have this talk with her father.

“Diego, did you see that?” Damian shouts in laughter. He just killed off my last remaining power source on the video game. “I thought you said you were good at this,” he quips.

“Guess my thumbs are out of shape,” I joke.

He rolls his eyes.

Damian’s a good kid so I don’t bother telling him that I’m letting him beat me. It’s his father whose eyes I can feel like lasers on my back. Watching us intently.

My aim is to get the game that I promised over as quickly as possible to have this so-called confrontation with Uncle Damon.

“Damian, why don’t you upstairs for a few minutes while Diego and I talk?” Monique’s father finally says.

“Yeah, I bet I can find better competition online,” Damian declares. “When’s dinner? I’m hungry.”

“Give us ten minutes,” his father answers.

“Cool. I’ve got plans tonight.”

Uncle Damon tells him something about making sure all of his schoolwork is done before he even thinks about going out for the night. Within a few minutes it’s just the two of us.

I rise from the chair and meet his eye contact.

“You wanted to speak with me?”

He looks me up and down.

“You know I own two guns, right?” he finally says.

I lower my head to hide my grin.

“Is that all?”

His eyebrows raise. “Don’t think because I love you like one of my nephews that I won’t hesitate to use them if you hurt her.”

“I would never,” I tell him in complete seriousness.

A small grin appears on his lips but quickly disappears.

“It’s about time you went over to Townsend,” he says, surprising me.

If I’m not mistaken, there’s admiration in his voice.

“What took you so long to go over there?” he asks.

My mind flashes back to the aftermath of losing the job waiting for me after what happened junior year. I never gave my parents the full story of why I went after Slater. They supported me wholeheartedly, though, sparing no expense when it came to legal representation.

Even more in the aftermath I needed to prove myself to them. To let them know I wasn’t just a trust fund kid who got into trouble, fucked up with his shitty temper, and ran to his family when things got too hot to handle.

I decided to forge a way on my own. I worked at bullshit, small architect firms until a major firm in the city hired me five years ago. There I cut my teeth on real design work, worked long hours, and took extra classes to improve. All so I could be worthy of the weight of my last name.

“Life,” I say.

He raises a dark eyebrow. “And that five-year probation you were on?” he inquires.

“Four years,” I correct without an ounce of shame.

He grunts and folds his arms across his chest. “It’s been seven years and I still don’t know the entire story of what happened in that situation.

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