Page 5 of Legacy of His Revenge
She lacked sophistication and clearly had no style gene whatsoever, so what, he wondered, with a certain amount of irritation, was it about her that captured his attention so completely?
‘You’re overreacting,’ he told her as she remained standing, her blue eyes dark with worry, anger and distress.
‘You’ve just told me that you’re not willing to come to any kind of arrangement with me about the money I owe you for your stupid car!’ Easy-tempered by nature, Sophie was shocked at the stridency of her voice and the fact that shewas yelling at him! ‘I can’t go to my bank and draw out the kind of money I would need to make good the damage. So,of course I’m going to be upset.’
‘Sit down.’
‘No. I’m going. You can get in touch with me on the number on the card! I’m going to have to talk this through with Julie. I don’t know what she’s going to say. She’s put in most of her savings to try and get this business of ours going, as have I, so I’m going to have to find the money to pay her back too and make sure she doesn’t have to pay for my mistake.’ Her voice was wobbling and she stared off into the distance in an attempt to stop herself from crying.
Matias squashed all feelings of guilt. Why should he feel guilty? He was staring at a woman whose father had destroyed his family. In that scenario, guilt didn’t exist. After all, all was fair in love and war, wasn’t it?
‘You could do that,’ he murmured, ‘or you could sit back down and listen to the proposition I have for you.’
