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Nicholas shrugged. “He’s a fucking bag of hot air.”
“Who will blow flames on you and burn you to pieces,” Reid said.
“What are you doing here?”
“I have an office—”
“I don’t mean in the building. Inheroffice.” The asshole pointed to me. “What business do you have with her?”
“Nothing that concerns you, Nick.” Reid indicated the hallway with a nod of his head. “Leave.”
“I’m not finished with her.”
Reid pulled his phone from his coat pocket. “Noah will disagree,” he said, punching in numbers.
“Fine. I’m leaving, asshole.” The big man-baby stomped to the door, then turned and faced me. “We aren’t finished, Ryan.”
“You are,” Reid answered. “If you fuck with her again, I’ll see to it that there’s a security camera installed in this office and outside her door that feeds directly to Noah’s phone.”
“You wouldn’t dare.”
“Try me,” Reid retorted.
The cousins stared at each other, but Nicholas glanced away first, leaving my office without another word. I staggered to my desk chair and sat, covering my face with my hands.
“Are you okay?”
Leaning back in my chair, I drew in a deep breath and nodded. Whoever beat Nicholas’s ass shouldn’t have stopped until he was permanently immobilized. Reid sat in one of the chairs in front of my desk, his eyes kind and concerned.
“He’s an awful fucking asshole.”
“I’m an only child, so Nick and I have always been close.”
I couldn’t read the meaning behind the words, so I shrugged. “And? It makes him no less a miserable little man.”
He smiled. “He is that.”
“Show me your friends,” I said with disapproval.
“And I’ll tell you who you are,” he finished. “I’m trying to rectify my mistakes, but I’m walking a fine line with the game I’m playing.”
“Then don’t play games. Instead of a fine line, walk in your own truth.”
“In time, once my goal is completed.”
“Ohhhh, cryptic.”
“Fair,” he countered. “After I’ve been unfair for so many years.”
“Does this concern—”
“What did Nicholas say to you?” Reid interrupted, and I took this as his way of telling me to mind my own business.
“It isn’t important.”
“I disagree. He either propositioned you, insulted you, or both.”
“You can add bribery in there,” I grumbled.
