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Stylianos

“Mr Stylianos will compensate you quite well for your loss, Mr Black,” the man said

I could sense Luca’s hesitation and I knehy he wasn’t ju to respond

Because I’d told hio and he was focused on that rather than finally ht knohere his son was

Luca was putting Aleks’s and et Aleks out of there, but the other part knee lanced at Tuxedo Man Both he and the guard were still there and I didn’t see any kind of commotion to indicate Brian had been found

“The auction won’t start for another fifteen minutes, sir,” I said to Luca in the hopes he would understand e

Luca considered it for a moment, then looked at the man

“Lead the way,” he finally said

Chapter 24

Aleks

I could barely breathe becauseso hard intied up in a roohn’s fists on his face

I wanted to laugh because the whole thing was just so unbelievable

But it wouldn’t have been a real laugh… it would have been one of those loud, inappropriate laughs like when so truly horrible and their brain couldn’t believe it and the signals got all jumbled in theirlaugh

I’d soether up until that point, even when Luca had touchedterrible things about the boy he owned like the boy wasn’t there and couldn’t hear every word The old me would have tuned theup and slapping the man across his fat face The fact that Mr Oak had wanted istered because I’d knoas perfectly safe Between Vaughn and Luca, I ht as well have been wrapped in a protective bubble

Yes, I’d been scared e’d entered the party