Page 98 of Master of Fortune

I shook my head. “No, for me. The shit I do couldn’t fly in the real world.”

“Do you really think some normal guy with a nine-to-five could handle even half of your friends?” Akari laughed. “He’d piss himself the second Petre showed up at your door with his stories of enemies and drinking blood.”

I stood, knowing what I had to do.

“Where are you going?” Stevie stood with me, giving me a curious once-over.

“To New York. I have to knock some sense into the asshole I plan to marry.”

Simon

I openedthe gate connecting the greenhouse and garden in the back of Nyx’s cottage, wondering for the tenth time why the hell I’d driven here again. If any of the Mykos guards caught me, they’d probably believe I’d lost my mind.

For the last month, it was the only place I could get any semblance of peace from all the work piling up on my plate. I still had plenty of rot to clear from my household, but the removal of Albert and Hal from the family structure had solidified my seat as the head of Drakos Shipping. Now, all that was left was weeding out the true allies from the enemies.

Tyler had followed through with his agreement and transferred the port, and the transition had brought with it all the normal power bullshit with rivals in the area. Most of which Kasen handled since anything to do with the Mykoses reminded me of the one Mykos I couldn’t have.

Though, it didn’t mean I hadn’t kept an eye on her. It seemed as if she’d thrown herself even deeper into her clubs and lost any sense of self-preservation, or maybe it was a dare for me to come for her.

I’d almost pulled the trigger and flown out there to tell her to rein in her activities. But I’d known it would have made things worse, and I refused to cause her any more pain.

The last pictures I’d gotten showed her sitting on her terrace staring out at a Vegas sunset.

God, I really was a fucking stalker, knowing everything that happened in her life.

Bracing my palm against the iron gates leading into the maze section of the garden, I closed my eyes and saw in vivid detail the pain etched across Nyx’s face as she’d told me she’d fallen in love with me.

I really was an asshole.

No. I’d done the right thing. It was the only way to give her the life she deserved. She would have given up her dream.

Cupping the back of my neck, I gazed up at the sky. I’d lived my whole life by the rules of one man, only to realize I’d failed him because I was more like the son he wanted to erase from existence.

However, I’d managed the one thing my father could never have done. I destroyed the only thing that ever meant anything to me.

Fuck, I needed to get out of here.

That’s when I felt a presence behind me and froze. If it was Tyler, I’d punch him. The last thing I wanted to deal with was his cocky ass.

“Excuse me, this isn’t your greenhouse. Why are you in it?”

I froze.

Nyx.

What the fuck was she doing here?

“Goddess, don’t give me any shit.”

“Why would I give you shit? Besides the fact this is a restricted area and you’re trespassing.”

I kept my gaze on the gardens, knowing if I looked in her direction, I’d want to reach for her, touch her.

“Nothing to say, Mr. Drakos?”

“I thought Akari was going to take you on a girls’ trip to Bora Bora.”

“How would you know what anyone in my world is doing?”

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