Mr. Dean (New York City Billionaires Book 5) by Mary Jennings

Author:Mary Jennings [Jennings, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen: Dean

After I’d put both Lucy and Luke into the back of the cab, Veronica and I returned to the second floor of the club together. I’d been tempted to grab the next taxi back to my place as soon as Lucy and her brother were gone, but I had one more thing I needed to take care of.

Sean Lloyd was still up there when I crossed the rope barrier into the VIP section. He was leaning against the railing, his back to the rest of the club, and laughing along to whatever Bradley was saying. Veronica wandered off back toward the table, muttering something about not being in the mood for displays of machismo.

Bradley, always the type of guy to be aware of brown-nosing opportunities at every moment, noticed me right away and waved for me to come over.

“Elijah! Please tell me you’ve met my buddy Sean Lloyd before,” he chortled.

My buddy? Who did this Sean Lloyd think he was? Bradley Haig was a Manhattan-born blue blood–an elitist piece of shit at the best of times. A new-money entrepreneur from the Midwest was not the type of person he would bother befriending. Despite that, it seemed as if he and Sean were already quite familiar with one another.

What was Sean’s secret? He’d been in New York for less than a year and he’d managed to locate the most important targets in the city as though he had a broad network of spies. Except, it was just the real estate business. There was no way his methods would be that intense.

Then again, given the rumors I’d heard about him …

I eased into my trademark networking smile and sauntered up to the two men as though I was totally unbothered.

“We haven’t met formally, but we've crossed paths a few times,” I replied, holding out my hand for Sean to shake.

My business opponent, who I already disliked for the way I caught him looking at Lucy, offered me a greasy grin and shook my hand.

“It’s an honor to meet you, Elijah Dean,” he said. “The empire your grandfather built is legendary.”

Rather than it coming across as a compliment, the remark sounded snide and oddly threatening in his pompous tone of voice. How could other people stand to be around him? He might have been good-looking, but Sean Lloyd’s entire aura reeked of poisonous duplicity. It gave me the creeps.

“Thank you,” I responded.

“I was just telling Sean about the old days at St. Charles,” Bradley cut in.

He was talking about our high school years at the club? That was strange. I wondered if it was because Bradley enjoyed bragging about all the important people he knew, or if Sean had specifically asked about me.

“How funny,” I remarked lightly before turning my attention onto Sean. “How’d you manage to make it past the bouncer? I’m controlling the VIP list tonight.”

Sean chuckled and shrugged. “I think he wanted to avoid telling the owner of this place no.”

I felt my eye twitch. “Excuse me?”

“Man, you didn’t know?” Bradley interrupted with a laugh, totally unaware of the thickening tension.

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