Rebel Revenge (Saint View Rebels Book 1) by Elle Thorpe

Author:Elle Thorpe [Thorpe, Elle & Thorpe, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781922760357
Publisher: Elle Thorpe Pty Ltd
Published: 2023-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

19

VAUGHN

I had things to do. An appointment with my lawyer. An entire company that was still running thanks to my father’s diligent staff who all adored him, but I needed to get in there and talk to his business partner. There were decisions that needed to be made and plans to be put in place.

Then there was my darling wife and her disasters that had somehow become mine.

But instead of doing any of that, I was sitting outside of Black Industries, staring at the dark tinted windows, with hate coursing through my veins.

I might not have known Rebel very well, but hearing Caleb had hurt her rolled my stomach.

The reaction had gone further than just hearing the news that a random woman had been attacked. I heard things like that on the news all the time and felt sympathy and anger, but then I went on with my day.

The problem was, she was a woman I was responsible for. My dad had clearly wanted her taken care of. If I hadn’t needed the money so fucking badly to bail my damn wife out of her mess, I would have just let Rebel have half. If I’d never met Brooke, I would have still had a nice fat trust fund and not a damn care in the world.

My phone rang, and I glanced at it, irritated by the interruption. “Ah, shit.” My lawyer, Nathan. I was five minutes late for my appointment, and he was already on my case. Freaking Type A people. “What?” I snapped into the phone, not caring I sounded like a spoiled brat. “I’m busy.”

“Yeah, well, aren’t we all? We had a meeting.”

“I’m coming.”

There was a pause where I went back to staring at the people coming and going from Black Industries. Was it my imagination, or did they all look depressed?

“So that complete silence I hear is your engine running? Or you jogging up the stairs of my office as we speak?”

I cracked my neck to ease the tension mounting there. “Fine. I’m not coming. Can we just do this over the phone? Something came up.”

He huffed out an irritated sigh. “I’ve set in motion the relevant paperwork to contest the will and I called in a few favors. You can put the house on the market. We’ll deal with the fallout later.”

I tapped my fingers against the steering wheel impatiently. “Yeah, about that. I think I’ve changed my mind.”

“What? Since when?”

Since I’d found her in my guest bedroom, curled up asleep, innocent as anything when she wasn’t sassing the crap out of me.

Since I’d realized she had nowhere to go.

Since I’d pulled my head out of my California-tanned ass and remembered my old man wasn’t some elderly, infirm, losing-his-marbles millionaire. He’d been young and smart and kind. Generous. And he’d wanted Miranda’s daughter taken care of. Who the hell was I to say no to that? I hadn’t stepped foot in Providence in ten years. I barely took my father’s calls, and generally only when I wanted something.

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