Page 241 of Damaged Mogul
“You played my daughter for a fool, asshole.”
A growl rumbles from my chest. “Whatever I shared with your daughter is between her and me. She’s a grown woman. Butt out.”
“You abused her innocence and put ideas in her head.”
What is he talking about?
“Now she’s missing, she’s going to force me to back out of an arrangement because she refuses to marry someone she was betrothed to.”
“Excuse me?”
“I handpicked a husband for Lily. A man who’s far more suitable for her than you––”
“Lily is… supposed to get married to another man?”
“Yes!” One word that has the same impact as a slap across the face.
I thought she wasn’t seeing anyone.
Was I wrong?
“You’re a bastard.” Fisher isn’t done insulting me. “How dare you put your hands on my daughter? You fucked her––”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa.”How the hell does he know that? Lily talks about intimate matters with Fisher?“First, you and I shouldn’t be having this conversation. Second, that’s none of your business––”
“It is my business when you’re in love with another woman and stringing along my daughter.”
“You’re not making any sense.”
“Come off it. I had a private investigator follow you around. I know all your dirty little secrets.”
I’m about to tear him a new one, when it hit me. “I’m in love with another woman? Says who?”
“Save your breath. Don’t bother lying. I have video proof.”
“Fisher––”
“Here’s how it’s going to go down, Hollingsworth. I’m going to find my daughter. And when I bring her back to New York, where she belongs, she’s going to do what I tell her to do. I need her to be a part of this family,andI need her to be in theHamptons in the next few days,andI need her to be invested,andI need her to forget all about you so she can marry the man she’s betrothed to.”
What in the actual fuck?
“I don’t need her to be entangled with the likes of you.”
“Fisher––”
“Stay the fuck away from my daughter.”
Pompous jerk.“I’m not fucking staying away.”
Silence.
“Fisher?”
I pull the device away from my ear.
The asshole hung up on me.
I dial Lily’s number.
