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Glitter–4
“Grant No. Not ever. I’ve told you
Grant rolled his eyes. “Yeah, yeah, I get it. I’m just yankin‘ your chain, pretty boy. Besides, I’m a kept man now,” he said in a way that I couldn’t tell if it was addressed to Ethan or Seth. “When do you pass the bar? We could use another lawyer.
Well, I have to graduate first. Nothing happened to Merk did it?”
Grant smirked. “Not vet,” he said, but then something changed, Grants features morphed, sobered, and the sorrow in his eyes was somewhat off–putting. It’s hard to think of evil people like him as being capable of caring, but there it was. It’s Maddie’s birthday
tomorrow.
Seth breathed deeply and cast his eyes down, “I know.”
“You gonna be there with the rest of us? I know you think you’re too good for your family-
Seth held a hand up. “I love my family it’s just the field they choose to work in that I hate. You’re better than this, Grant. We were all better than this, but Dad–Seth tilted his head to the side, clenching his jaw. “Yes, I’ll be there.”
Grant nodded. “Fine, Grant said and started to turn away, but he paused. “You know, Seth, you have to play the cards you’ve been dealt.”
“Or fold when it’s a bad hand,” Seth said.
That seemed to piss Grant off. He whipped around. “If I’d done that who the fuck do you think Dad would’ve put in my place? Simon? Andrew? Hunter? You? You owe me more than you know little brother.
Grant was speaking softly, advancing towards Seth with every word until they were nose–to–nose. This man emanated danger and menace like he didn’t care who he hurt to get what he wanted. I’d never been afraid of a person before, but a minute in Grant’s presence and I knew. I just knew that this wasn’t a man someone wanted to be in debt to.
1 curled my fingers into Seth’s jacket, hugging his back tighter to my front in fear for him, Ethan, and myself because of Grant’s close proximity to all of us now.
Grant continued his index finger punching into Seth’s sternum. “Every time you fuck your girl, every time you wake up in the morning next to her and then go to class without a care in the world and especially when you fall in love–overy happy moment you ever have just remember that I gave that to you. We never had the chances you did, the chance to walk away, but you were the youngest. The last of the Katsaros and Maddie wanted you to have a better chance Grant paused to compose himself, clenching
his teeth and straightening the lapels of his tuxedo jacket. I’ll see you tomorrow! You better be there to pay your respects!”
When he was gone, Seth’s shoulders drooped and his head bowed. He heaved a sigh and turned slowly towards us, his face blank–of emotion. “I really want to leave right now and I dont want to ruin the mood, so I’m just gonna go wait in the car while you guys eat. I don’t think I can stomach looking at Grant and Andrew right now,”
Andrew?
I briefly glanced over at the table where Grant had sat down and say two other men seated with red wine glasses sitting in front of
then..
“Are they your brothers?”
“Yeah, but not that other guy to the left… I don’t know who he is. Another potential client probably,” Seth said. He placed a chaste kiss against the side of my mouth. I saw him take a step towards Ellan, but Ethan tensed enough that Seth pulled back. Sath didn’t show any hurt at the action, but his law clenched. Instead of kissing Ethan us he had me, he nodded towards him and turned towards the door.
Glitter–4
I quickly reached out and grabbed Seth’s arm. “Hey, if you leave, we leave.
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