Consent (The Loan Shark Duet Book 2) by Charmaine Pauls

Author:Charmaine Pauls [Pauls, Charmaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9782956103110
Published: 2017-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

Gabriel

Magda is getting impatient with me. She taps her nails on the desk upstairs in Napoli’s. “It’s been a month. You have to move on.”

A month since Carly is gone, and I can’t get my shit together. With moving on, Magda means killing, of course. Some jackass in Braamfontein crossed the line when he burgled our office. A month ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated. I would’ve taken the idiot out without blinking an eye, but I made a promise to myself, for Carly, and I won’t betray my daughter’s memory.

I turn my back to her, facing the window that overlooks the gambling floor below. “Told you, I’m done. I’m out.”

There’s anger in her voice. “Without you, we’ll go under.”

“You have Scott and a thousand others you can recruit.”

“You are my son. Albeit a useless one, and thanks to––” She cuts herself short, gulps in some air. A shaky breath slips into the silence. “Now we don’t have an heir.”

Damn right, we don’t. My son won’t end up like me, just like it was never my intention to marry Carly off to a criminal worthy of running our shady business. What Magda won’t see is that we never had an heir, and we never will.

“It’s your business.” I turn back to face her. “Do with it what you will, but I’m leaving.”

Scorn deforms her mouth. “What will you do? How will you live?”

She’s got me by the balls and from the way that scornful smile grows into a spiteful grin she knows it. I have no idea. I have a wife and soon I’ll have a child to take care of. People hate me. Enemies have grudges. I need to keep my family safe, and the only way to do it is to have money. State of the art alarm systems, ammunition, and guards cost bucks. Big bucks.

I cast out my feelers carefully. “I could still run the office, take charge of our business affairs.”

She throws me a snide look. “In our business the only bosses respected are the ones who get their hands dirty.”

“We could clean up the business.”

She slams her fist on the desk. “This isn’t how this city works, and you know it.” She points a finger at me. “Try and run a clean loan shark business and see how far you get. The competition will ruin you in a day, and if they don’t, the police and government will. They’ll take kickbacks from someone willing to pay it, and we’ll be finished. Over.”

The sad part is she’s right. If you can’t do bribes and play dirty, you’re going down.

“I will not see my hard work to build this company up to where it is go down the drain.” She accentuates her statement with a nail she pushes on the polished wood of the desk.

I won’t break my vow. That leaves only one option. “I’m sorry, Magda. I guess that means you’re on your own.”

Her body goes rigid. Pushing back her chair, she rises stately. It looks as if her back is about to snap.

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