Vengeful Mafia Prince: An Enemies to Lovers Dark College Mafia Romance (Vicious Heirs Book 2) by Lenora Wilde

Author:Lenora Wilde [Wilde, Lenora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen—Elena

I stand there, just outside the door to my father's office, and wonder why the hell it's suddenly become so hard for me to go in there and have a conversation with my father.

As if I don't know.

I've been going through the folder that Jordan made for me the last few days, picking my way through every little detail, taking it all in. And what it has revealed to me is that the man I thought my father was... well, there's a whole lot more to him than that.

I lift my knuckles and rap on the door. I need to talk to him about what's going on. I need to understand the extent of everything. I need to wrap my head around the reality of it. I'm old enough now to hear the details, no matter how terrifying they might be.

"Come in."

His voice sends a shiver down my spine, but I plant my hand on the door and push it open. Inside, my father is sitting behind a large desk, one hand pressed against his temple, the other fiddling with a fountain pen. He glances up and manages a small smile when he sees me. It doesn't reach his eyes.

"Oh, Elena," he says, rising to his feet and gesturing for me to sit down. "Here. What can I help you with?"

The way he says it, it sounds almost stilted, as though I'm nothing more than an employee interrupting him when he's in the middle of something else that's so much more important.

"There's something I wanted to talk to you about," I confess. How the hell am I going to even start this conversation with him? I can already tell from the way he's looking at me that he doesn't have a goddamn clue what I'm talking about, and he doesn't like it.

Because I'm the girl who keeps her mouth shut. I'm not the girl who digs her heels in and tries to take control. That's one of the reasons he was okay having me at the business in the first place, I'm sure of it.

Because he knew it would be easy for him to keep me out of what really mattered here.

"Dad, what do you do here?" I blurt out, finally. A stupid way to start the conversation, but hey, at least it's something.

He stares at me for a moment, nonplussed.

"Elena, you work here. You know what we do here."

I shift in my seat.

"I know... I know what you say you do. But... I've heard some people talking and..."

"Who the hell has been talking to you about what I do?" he snarls back, and the harshness in his voice catches me off guard. I hold my hands up quickly.

"It's okay, it's nobody." Last thing I want to do is throw someone from this place under the bus when they've done nothing wrong. Judging by the look on my father's face right now, he would tear a chunk out of anyone he suspected.

"I just... I know that you've been so successful," I continue, carefully couching what I'm about to say next in a compliment.

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