Her Deadly Friends

Chapter 41

Danny Pov

I cooed to Kyleigh. She laughed and wiggled from my arms. She wanted to get down and walk. "No, don't leave me," I pouted and grabbed her and held her up then made fart noises under her chin. She didn't care about how much I wanted to love on her. She still wanted to get down. I signed. "Fine. Go."

I glared as she wobbled over to my grandfather and raised her arms. He chuckled then picked her up. She laid her head on him then baby talked to herself while playing with her bear.

"Pop, why did you give him that high position? He's going to make life very difficult for me."

"Sweetheart, it was the next level promotion. The man is very good at what he does. He's raw, he's cutthroat, he intimidates. No one in this sector has ever managed to acquire those oil accounts and not just any oil accounts, the biggest ones in Saudi and the surrounding areas. We need him. He's basically carrying the rest of the members. I couldn't make it seem like I was being unfair. I don't want a mutiny on my hand. He has enough support already. The lazy members here worship him."

"Pops, he's gonna want to see Kyleigh."

"Well, that is his right as her father."

"But he didn't want her. He threatened to throw her into traffic so many times after she was born!"

"That's because he thought she was another man's child."

"How does he know she's his?"

"He took a DNA test, of course. The same day that Tasha helped you escape."

"No wonder he was looking at me with so much rage on his face. I thought he would let me go because he thought she wasn't his, but now that he knows... I'm afraid. Pop, he's gonna get violent. You know what he's capable of. What am I going to do?"

"I'll protect you."

"You can't interfere, pops. He would get rid of you."

He chuckled. "Sweetheart. I'm not afraid of Dean's rage."

"That's because you're a 6'5 tall Samoan. Me? He will kill me."

"Nonsense. Dean doesn't want to go against me no more than I want to go against him. First thing first. You will have to let him see the baby. Don't forget about all the hell he can raise."

"No."

"Danny," he warned.

I didn't say anything else. My grandfather acts like he doesn't know what kind of man Dean is. Dean will use Kyleigh against me. He will use her to make me submit to him and I'm done submitting. Either he treats me like an equal or he won't see her. I want to hear him say it out of his mouth that he will not treat me like a possession.

"What if I let him see her, but someone else takes her. Someone we trust, like, Pope. I don't have to bring her to him personally."

He rubbed his chin. "That could work. It would pose the impression out there that you are cooperating, so therefore, he can't raise a legitimate fuss."

It had to work. I'm trying really hard to not let Dean's actions affect me. I barely kept it together at the podium. I felt his rage. He thinks I betrayed him. But I didn't. I chose me and he couldn't handle that. I told him over and over that I would leave him. When I left him and saw my grandfather again, I was so overjoyed. Dean will not alienate me from my loved ones again. He already did that with Kyle. Kyleigh giggled. I looked over and smiled. My grandfather was slightly throwing her in the air. She flew in the air and kicked her legs and giggled. She has the cutest baby laugh.

I thought back to when I saw my grandfather again and how shocked I was that he was my benefactor.

"Tasha, I left him." I started to breathe heavily. "He will kill me."

"Danny, you have powerful friends, remember. Someone contacted me and told me to bring you to them and I could save my parents' sanitation business. They said that they were your benefactor."

I looked at her and gasped. "They contacted you."

She nodded.

"But you love Dean. I've seen you two together. Why would you do this to him?"

"I do. I love him. But he and his family are the reason my family was about to lose everything. Dean helped his father ruin my parents' company. I found Dean and went to him and told him who I was. He ceased immediately. I could tell that he was pissed at his father. But his father didn't care. He still tried to ruin us the best way he could without Dean's help. I got fed up. I tried to kill him. That was the only way he would stop. They wanted to persecute me, but Dean saved me. He brought me into his house to be a servant instead."

"Why was his father trying to ruin your mother's company?"

"Because they had a thing a long time ago and he couldn't get over that she had moved on. He actually took my mother without her permission, and he kept taking her without her permission. She found a way out and left. He said, 'nobody leaves him and gets away with it'." He sounded just like his son. I was confused. "But I thought they didn't like black people."

"He does if they come from a rare bloodline."

"I'm still a little confused. Why would Dean pick you over his father? Even if you did go to him on bended knee."

"Dean can't stand his father. Plus, I'm his sister."

I gasped. I'm surprised. But it didn't take me long to wrap my head around the fact. They joke, play and insult each other like brother and sister.

"We're here."

I couldn't say more. Even though I had more questions. We pulled up at the huge building with Grecian columns. I rearranged Kyleigh on my shoulder to get out of the car. She has fallen asleep. Thank God. I left everything. Her bottle, her nippy. When she wakes up, she's going to raise hell.

"Hello, I'm Pope. I will be escorting you." We nodded but I saw Tasha get her gun ready in case there was trouble. He led us through two double doors that were already open. There was a man sitting behind the desk. I could tell he was lighting a cigar. He seems familiar somehow. When he turned, I stumbled back. Big fat tears came rolling down my face. I handed Kyleigh over to Tasha. I ran to him and threw my arms around him. "I thought you were dead."

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