I Told the Mob Boss I Would Not Be Bought, So He Offered to Be Sold novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: The Terms

"Get out of the car, or don't," I said. "You taught me that line."

"I'd like to say something first."

"Then say it in the office. It's cold."

I unlocked the gate chain myself.

He drove through and parked beside my truck, and we went into the barn office together without touching.

I lit the lamp.

The lot card with our two numbers was still on the brass rail where I had left it.

He stood in front of the desk with his hands at his sides.

"I'm going to tell you something," he said. "I'm going to say it flat, because you'd see through the other way."

"I would."

"The note is handled. The barn, the bank, the Pelhams. I'm taking it all out of their hands this week, and that doesn't depend on you."

I stared at him.

"You can walk out that door tonight, and the paper still goes through. You can stay, and it goes through. Nothing you do or don't do in this room changes one line of it."

"That's not how a deal works," I said.

"It's how this one works," he said.

"Why would you do that?"

He held my eyes.

"Because I'd rather you never have a reason to say yes to me that wasn't yours."

The words landed in my chest like a dropped coin.

"The door's open," he said. "It has been since Saturday. From now on, if you want my hands on you, you'll have to start it, because I won't."

I laughed once, shortly, because I didn't know what else to do.

"You've been in this room ten minutes, and you've told me the barn is saved, the door is open and you won't touch me."

"Yes," he said.

"Do you know how often a man has offered me something without pricing it?"

"No," he said.

"Never," I said.

I walked around the desk.

He did not move.

I stopped in front of him, close enough to see the fine lines at the corners of his eyes and the pulse beating in his neck above the open collar.

"Then I'll start," I said.

I put both hands on the lapels of his jacket and pushed it off his shoulders.

It dropped to the floor.

He kept his arms at his sides.

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