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“Good, I’ll get the car,” he murmured, bringing me back to the present.

Connor remained standing in front of me for another ten seconds, head canted as he watched me. The rough timber of his voice, the glitter in his eyes, all of it seemed to hold a promise inside them.

A secret, maybe.

Like the one I had about how much I wanted him.

I bit my lip and nodded, dying to see it revealed, to this insane attraction come to fruition.

“Okay,” I replied, agreeing to far more than a drink.

“I’ll be out in a minute.”

Chapter 7-Connor

Erasing the taint of my father’s sins to bring glory back to my family name is the ultimate goal.

It is all that matters.

Clementine Aziz is simply a means to an end.

I repeated that to myself ten times in the past five seconds, but even I was starting to doubt my sincerity.

I almost wished I’d sought her out for another reason. For selfish ones alone.

She was so sweet, so sexy, tempting me like no other. I supposed I could consider that a bonus.

See, my father might have destroyed the Callahan name in the underworld, and yeah, I was committed to bringing it back.

Sure, I had to crawl through shit to get there, but I wasn’t cut from the same cloth as the old man.

No small time hustling for me. I’d built my legitimate security firm from the ground up myself.

I named my business Callahan Protection Group because no matter what the prick bastard who sired me did, that was my name, and I was fucking proud of it.

Only one thing could secure us as the premier firm for protection against cyberattacks, and that was taking down the current number one, Sigma International.

I had a plan, of course, and it involved seducing the man’s daughter and installing some of my patented spyware on her laptop. Once I was in, I could infiltrate the system.

So, first things first, right?

I had to get the girl.

My phone buzzed. It was a text from my father’s brother, Lorne.

L.C.

You done playing up to the princess, nephew? It’s time you followed through on your promises.

This fucking asshole.

Me

Will update in person. Do not text me again.

I sent the reply and blocked his messages.

I had no room in my head for that asshole right now.

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