Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 285

NICK

“Do your worst, Nick,” Kander sneered, blood dribbling from the corner of his mouth as he spat it onto the floor at my feet. “See now? You people shot me, and I haven’t been able to contact my guys. The alert is out. It’s no longer just about Olivia. Now, your whole circle is fair game”

I couldn’t help but watch him closely. When I first walked in, he had looked like a man on his last breath, weak, near death. Now, he was talking like he had all the time in the world. Like he was in control, ready to take on whatever came next, with a twisted confidence that felt like he had nothing to lose.

I feared for the kids when he spoke of all of us being fair game. I hoped he was talking about taking our money but as he had already shown us, Xander didn’t need out money. Je wanted to make us feel the most excruciating pain possible. The way Luke made him feel when he killed his father.

I took a slow step toward him, watching as he narrowed his eyes, but I wasn’t intimidated. Not by his bravado, not by his threats. I had been around men like Xander before. They used noise and anger to mask their fear, and it didn’t fool me.

“You should have let me take my revenge on Luke,” he growled, his voice low and dangerous. “That man killed my father and desecrated his grave. And yet, you protect him. No wonder people like him think they can do whatever they want with others. Billionaires like you protect him from the shadows.”

words. He still had that fire inside him, fuelled by revenge, by the past that had twisted him into the man he was now. The anger had consumed him, and in some sick way, I almost

letting the silence linger for a moment. “Unfortunately, Xander, we don’t choose our families,” I said, my voice calm and unwavering. “I am

the almost frail man I had seen when I first entered. Now, he was riled

hesitation. “If your father had been a good man, an ordinary man, he wouldn’t have crossed paths with Luke. The fact that he had dealings with

nostrils flared, the was so angry that he was

was shaking with rage now, his body tense, as if he was just on the edge of breaking. He looked like he might lunge

eyes never leaving his. “Face it, Xander,” I said, my voice steady, “you don’t know

the effort to control his breathing. His body was trembling, not from weakness, but from anger. There was no need to get physical with him. I could see right through him. His rage wasn’t just because of Luke. It was because of his father, the life his father had led, the choices he had made, and the way

to grow up in the system. The life that didn’t change even after your mother died. And you know what? You are angry because he didn’t take care of you.

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went dark with fury, and his fists clenched. “Shut up! I said don’t talk about him!” He was seething now,

his face. It was a grimace, a sharp contrast to the anger that had been radiating off him just