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“No” She huffs, her face red with anger “That is not going to happen”

“Really? You’re going to go against me” I smirk “Do you knoho I am?”

“A pretty rich boy who had everything handed to hiold platter”

I stand fro beside her, looking down

“No, princess That’s not who I am I’m a man you should fear”

“What are you going to do? Have you ever gotten your hands dirty? Have you ever been desperate, wanted for anything?” She levels me with her stare One that says she won’t back down, not without a fight

If I didn’t hate her, I would probably respect the fuck out of her Then want to literally fuck her But this is the hand ere dealt One where she will be on the permanent end of pain, just like she’d done to my family

Dad’s hack of a lawyer clears his throat

“May I have a minute with Payton?” he asks

“No,” I respond,his mouth drop

“But—”

“I don’t have time for this shit Whatever you have to say, say in here”

He nods atfor her to move over to the other side of the rooive them privacy, but whatever he has to say, I’ll hear anyway

They rate to the corner of the sry Payton places her hands on her waist

“What?” She scoffs

“You need to be careful,” he tries to whisper Not well, I ht add

“I don’t need to do anything I’m not scared of a rich trust-fund kid”

“Ms Hart, please keep it down”

“Why bother? We all know he can hear, so spit it out already Tell me what’s so damn important about this man that I have to listen to this shit”

“It’s not about him”

“Stop with the damn riddles”

“His clients, Payton Do you knoho his clients are? If he wanted to, he could have Lorenzo A a bell? Cyrus basically runs the underworld Should I keep going? Mafia, drugs, aret on this man’s bad side If he wants to just take the money and set you up for murder, he could The money would be the least of your problems”

That makes Payton shut up