Desperate Deception_Brotherhood Protectors World by Desiree Holt

Author:Desiree Holt [Holt, Desiree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense
Goodreads: 48346976
Publisher: Twisted Page Press LLC
Published: 2019-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Sonny, you’re driving yourself crazy.”

Geoff Miller swiped his phone shut and looked at his boss. “You hardly concentrate on the clients because you’re so obsessed with finding that bitch who screwed you over.”

“Focused,” Sonny corrected him.

“What?” Geoff frowned.

“I said I’m focused, not obsessed.” He rose from behind his desk and walked to the large window in his office. “Focused is what gets the job done.”

“Yeah?” Geoff quirked an eyebrow. “How’s that working out for you?”

Sonny tossed his pen down on the desk. He didn’t need Geoff’s smart mouth today, unless it was to tell him where he could find Lainie. The bitch. The absolutely ungrateful bitch. He’d given her anything she could possibly want, and this was how she repaid him?

“If you’ve got nothing to say, keep your mouth shut.”

Geoff held up his hands. “Okay, okay, make yourself miserable all you want.”

“I take it no one you spoke to has laid eyes on her?”

Geoff shrugged and shook his head.

“What the fuck?” Sonny wanted to throw something. “Nobody disappears like that. Not unless they’ve got a ton of money behind them. Which she does not.”

“Well, someone helped her,” Geoff pointed out. “They had to.”

“If you don’t quit repeating the obvious, you’ll be the next one to disappear. I’ll—” The cell phone on his desk rang, and he snatched it up. Looked at the readout. “Yeah, Antonio? Have you finally got something for me? What? I gave you the job almost seventy-two hours ago. What the fuck takes so long? All right, all right. Send over what you’ve got.”

He slammed the cell phone down on the desk.

“Careful,” Geoff commented, “or you’ll break it. Anything?”

“Frank says they plucked the entire roster of hospital employees off their system, and he has his crew running them through every database he’s got. But since we didn’t know what names to flag, he’s sending us the raw list while he has his guys run profiles on all of them.”

“Holy shit, Sonny. That could take forever.”

Sonny shook his head. “Not with Frank. He’s got the most sophisticated setup you’d ever want to see. Anyway, he’s sending over what he’s got as we speak.”

He turned to his computer and opened his email, waiting for the one from Frank to pop up. Of course, the moment it showed up, the intercom on his desk buzzed. Fuck. Now what?

He pushed the button. “What is it?”

“I’m sorry, Mr. Fitzgerald, but you told me to let you know when the Calabreses arrived.”

Double fuck. Angelo Calabrese and his brother, Paolo, were the principle owners of Steelman Consolidated, a multimillion-dollar conglomerate that bought and sold other companies. Usually, they targeted a company, Sonny created an adversarial situation, the company sued, Sonny litigated them out of existence, and the Calabreses got something practically for free. And Sonny got a big fat fee.

It was a sign of his unusual distraction that he’d forgotten all about the appointment. They were right smack

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