POTUS: A Powerplay Novel by Selena Laurence

Author:Selena Laurence [Laurence, Selena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780997718843
Publisher: Golden Age Press
Published: 2017-01-19T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Kamal had thought he was free and clear. And it was true that his money was. He was now an independently wealthy man with a well-padded set of Swiss bank accounts that no one could touch and that were in no way tied to his father.

However, the fallout from Teague’s master manipulations wasn’t going to be short-lived. Approximately thirty-two hours after the very last dime he could legitimately take was transferred, his father was on the phone, the video conference line, email, and even text. And his fury was substantial.

“What the bloody hell do you think you’re doing?” His voice thundered across the computer monitor in Kamal’s office, where he sat in his sweats at four a.m. because his father had called the overnight embassy staff and insisted they wake his son for a family emergency.

Kamal stifled the urge to defer to his father. Thirty-plus years of doing as he was told didn’t fall away easily.

“Good morning, sir. I assume you’re in London since you’re dressed and there’s daylight outside your window. Maybe you forgot that it’s four a.m. here?”

Kamal took a sip from the cappuccino his housekeeping staff had been kind enough to provide when they heard he would be taking a video call before the crack of dawn.

His father’s face turned an interesting shade of purple, and the vein on the side of his neck throbbed erratically. Kamal briefly worried that his actions might cause the old man to stroke out, and while he and father weren’t close, and he was happy to be free of the man’s machinations, he also didn’t want to be the one to kill the family patriarch.

“I don’t give a bloody shit what time it is. I want to know what you think you’re doing?”

Kamal cleared his throat. “I’ve taken the funds that are legitimately mine and put them in independent accounts.”

He could nearly hear his father’s teeth grinding through the Internet connection. “And why in the name of all that is holy to our family would you do such a thing?”

“Because I have reason to believe that both you and our esteemed President Abbas are involved in this mess with the Bratva that resulted in an assassination attempt on President Hampton while I sat a few inches from her.”

His father hadn’t become a billionaire by having a poor poker face, and his expression hardly flinched at the accusation.

“I would never be involved with an attempted assassination. Nor would I approve of any such attempts that put my own flesh and blood at risk—although I’m currently rethinking that policy.”

Kamal had to chuckle. He knew no matter what—even if he was cast out of the family forever—his father would never tolerate Kamal being harmed. But that assumed his father had any say in the matter, and Kamal highly doubted he did.

He leaned closer to the monitor, pinning his father with his sharp gaze. “I know you would never order something like that, but I don’t think you had any say in it, and I don’t think you have much control over the whole thing at all.

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