Page 66 of Marcellus: House of Drakos
Savannah’s heart soared. She thought she was going to be cast aside because she had no wife standing like Kari Drakos, nor any blood-relative standing like his half-brother and his sons. But she apparently had standing with Marcellus. And he was all that mattered to her. She hurried to his side, took his hand, and walked with him, ahead of everybody, to his sprawling home office.
Olivier and Freddy glanced at each other. They still could not believe that their father would show deference to any lady. But he was showing it to a secretary of all people? It boggled their minds.
Alex was still surprised that the image he had of his half-brother as some great-looking playboy who treated women as sex toys rather than human beings could not have been further from the truth if how he was treating Savannah was any indication. He seemed to adore that woman.
Kari seemed to notice it too as she smiled and raised an eyebrow as Marcellus and Savannah led the way.
But in the office, Savannah’s presence was not the issue at all. Getting Kalayna back home was.
Marcellus walked behind his desk and stood there. Savannah stood by his side. “What do we know so far?” he asked Scottie.
But Scottie looked at Alex. They all knew the bad blood that existed between the families. And Scottie was a man who spoke his mind. “You want me to speak in front ofhim?”
Marcellus forgot that he hadn’t introduced anyone. “Alex, Kari, these are my sons: My oldest two: Olivier and Scottie.”
“Hello,” Alex said.
They grumbled their hellos.
“And this is my youngest son Fredrick.”
He and Alex spoke as well.
“Nikolas is recovering from some injuries he incurred during the rescue. Guys,” he said to his sons, “this is Alex Drakos and his wife.”
“We know who he is,” said Olivier. “What we don’t know is what is he doing here?”
“He’s helping me, that’s what.”
“How?” asked Freddy.
“He and his brother Oz have connections we don’t have. That’s how! Now focus on your sister. What do we know so far?”
“Kalayna told me she needed to go by her house and pick up some items,” Freddy said. “She didn’t want anybody going for her. You know how private she can be.”
“So all she had to do was bat her eyes at her big brother and you just said okeydokey go right ahead?”
“No. But Ollie did. I told her no.”
“She didn’t get in her car and go on her own, Pop,” said Olivier. “She was driven by an entire detail, and with a second car backing that car up. She wasn’t alone.”
“Then where’s all of this security?” Marcellus asked. “Where the fuck is all of this security since she was so secure?!”
A distressed look came over Olivier’s handsome face. “We don’t know. We can’t find them either.”
“Motherfuck!” Marcellus yelled out. “I told your ass to not let anybody out of this house while I was gone and you defied me anyway. And you expect me to keep you in control of my entire corporation when you can’t even control your baby sister? When you can’t even manage a simple order?”
Olivier didn’t know what to say. He knew it was all on him. “I fucked up, Pop. What can I say?”
“Nothing.Absolutely nothing!”
Then Scottie’s cell phone began ringing. Because they knew it was Scottie those kidnappers had gotten in touch with when they took Niko, they all looked at him. He placed the call on Speaker and then answered. “This is Scott.”
“Put Daddy on the line.”
It was a male’s voice. The same distorted male voice that had spoken with Marcellus when those planes collided across the street. Scottie handed him the phone.
“Hello?”
