Total pages in book: 111
Estimated words: 105775 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 529(@200wpm)___ 423(@250wpm)___ 353(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 105775 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 529(@200wpm)___ 423(@250wpm)___ 353(@300wpm)
Teszner trembles so much he barely manages to pull the pen from his hand. He cradles his injured hand against his chest, bleeding all over his suit and the table.
The lawyer takes a handkerchief from his pocket and offers it to Teszner, who snatches it up and winds it like a bandage around his hand.
Tatiana sits back down, looking as if her knees are about to fold. After last night and the scene she just witnessed, I don’t blame her. I didn’t mean for her to see that side of me in person. I just couldn’t help myself. No one speaks to her like that.
She holds her brother’s gaze. “Did you bug Noah’s toy?”
He stares at her with so much malice there’s no question about how much he hates her.
Motherfucker.
For that, I’m taking his eyes too.
His upper lip curls. “You know why I did it.”
Despite the fact that she knows her brother is lower than vermin, profound sadness passes over her face. “Did you think about what would happen to Noah when you sent those men after me?”
He only continues to glare at her with that mocking sneer on his face that says to go fuck herself.
Oh, Teszner. You don’t know when to stop, do you?
Tatiana nods a couple of times, tears shining in her eyes. “You didn’t give a damn if Noah got hurt or killed in the process, did you?”
At least he’s got enough brain cells to know he shouldn’t answer that question.
“I told them I wanted you alive,” he says. “I said nothing about the kid.”
Or maybe not. I’m going to enjoy torturing him.
“Thank you,” Tatiana says, addressing me and not her brother. “That’s all I wanted to know.”
The dumb fuck still doesn’t know when to shut up. “Joni was willing to renegotiate the terms of marrying you even though you were damaged goods.” He says that as if Tatiana missed out on the opportunity of her life. “He would’ve settled for your shares and a part of mine. But he didn’t want to raise another man’s bastard.”
Tears glitter in her green eyes. “He’s your nephew, Leander.”
Teszner snorts, jutting his chin in my direction. “His kid is nothing of mine.”
Tatiana gives him a pitying look, but the sorrow in her eyes intensifies with her unshed tears, making those green pools appear brighter than usual.
That’s it. I’ve fucking heard enough.
I grab the napkin that sits next to the lawyer’s untouched cup of coffee and wipe the splatters of blood from my hand and sleeve before scrunching it up and dropping it in Teszner’s lap.
He follows me with his gaze as I go back to the other side of the table and take up a position next to Tatiana. He’s acting brave, but I don’t miss how his eyes are bouncing around in his sockets.
I hold out a hand. One of my men places the folder I brought in it.
I slide it across the table to Teszner. “As my wife, Tatiana signed over her shares and her percentage of all property ownership to her husband for management. Everything she inherited belongs to me.”
Teszner must’ve expected as much, but he still opens the folder with his good hand and flips through the documents like a vulture looking for a piece of meat overlooked on a bone.
I give the lawyer a copy. “As you’ll see, I already bought up the shares that came onto the market. That makes me the sole owner of Teszner Agglomerate.”
Teszner’s nostrils flare. He slams the folder shut and sits there stewing in anger and blood.
I plant my hands on the table and lean closer, taking great pleasure from dealing the blow. “I don’t only own the company and the house, Teszner. I own everything, including your sister.”
Tatiana flinches, and for some reason, the gesture bothers me more than it should.
Teszner observes me from under his eyebrows, letting every rotten part of him spill into his mocking grin. “Not everything.”
I don’t break eye contact with that motherfucker, but I feel Tatiana’s gaze burning on me. The questions she doesn’t give voice to are palpable in the air. I’m attuned enough to her to know what’s going through her mind.
Teszner acts cocky, but it’s all for show. He’s already pissed himself under the table. “So what? Is this the part where you kill me?”
“Kill you?” I laugh, the sound macabre and full of dark anticipation. “That’s too easy, Teszner.”
Wincing, he reels.
That’s right. His suffering has just begun. He’s too much of a coward to end his own life. We both know it. He’s going to live every second of the slow torment I’ve got planned for him.
I adjust my jacket. “My men will escort you and your lawyer from the building once our discussion is over. All computers and files will remain on the premises. You can leave your keys on your way out.”