Sworn to Love by Tabke Karin

Author:Tabke, Karin [Tabke, Karin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781439127353
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2015-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

chapter eleven

“It’s customary to knock,” Mateo growled.

“I knock for no one,” Dumas said, striding into the bedroom.

“Father, really!” Sophia huffed.

As she wrapped herself in a big, fluffy towel and made to move past him, Mateo grasped her hand and pulled her to his side. He eyed the cartel boss, who stood arrogantly challenging him to push further. Even if Mateo didn’t know what the old man was about, he still wouldn’t like him. He was a terrorist in every definition of the word. And if there was one thing Mateo could never tolerate, it was a bully.

“It doesn’t matter that your father has no respect for you or your privacy, because we’ll be leaving tomorrow,” Mateo said.

“You’re welcome to leave, but you leave alone,” Dumas threw back.

“What do you mean, we’re leaving?” Sophia asked, panic rising in her voice.

Mateo looked at her and wished that she could read his mind. He’d tell her it was a power play, and to win, he needed her fully committed to him, at least on the surface. “You’re my wife. I refuse to live in a house where we have no privacy.” He looked at his furious father-in-law. “You overstep your bounds, sir.”

“But—” Sophia sputtered. He tightened his grip on her hand.

“What about you, Daughter? Do you feel the same?” Dumas asked.

Mateo scoffed at the question and answered for her. “Does it matter if she does? You don’t respect her feelings. Why do you even ask?” As he challenged the old man he saw something he had not expected, a blink. “Leave us, but before you go, remove the cameras and the bugs from our rooms.”

Dumas growled. Mateo pushed. “If you don’t, I will.”

“Cameras? Bugs?” Sophia pulled her hand from his and squarely faced her father. “What is he talking about, Papa?”

“They were installed for your protection.”

“My protection? How so?”

“You are my only child. After your brother’s and sister’s disappearance and Javier’s death, I leave nothing to chance.”

She moved closer to him. “What does that have to do with spying on me in my own bedroom?”

As if he had every right to do what he did, Dumas pragmatically continued, “Unbeknownst to you, there have been several attempts over the past years to kidnap you. Twice the hoodlums have breached the hacienda. If they made it as far as your room, I would know.”

“But the camera in my sitting room, it wasn’t there before.”

Dumas nodded.

“It was just installed so that he could spy on me,” Mateo accused. “All the more reason for us to leave.”

“I can protect my daughter.”

“As can I.”

“You are one, I am many.”

“I may be one, but she’s not a chattel to me.” He pulled Sophia back toward him. “I would protect her with my life. Would you do the same?”

Dumas made a nasty snarling sound, his face twisting furiously. That this man had never been challenged fascinated Mateo as much as it incited him to call the old bastard out every chance he got. “I would sacrifice all for my daughter, including my life.

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