CHAPTER 55
JACK’S POV
Sitting in this car outside the high school has me seething with resentment. I have never felt so furious with that little bitch more than right now. Watching her leave school with those three boys, happily chatting and fooling around. Ganging up on one of the boys and pinning him to the ground.
Where the hell did she get the confidence to do that? I never gave it to her. I did everything I could to make sure that she didn’t have any confidence to talk to anyone.
What the hell have those boys done to her? That’s not the brat that I used to call my bastard.
I had everything I wanted in this town. I was the tycoon that everyone came to if they wanted something. If they needed something. I am a genius in this pathetic city, using my wealth and my smarts to get everything I wanted.
I was always an ambitious child. My mother always said that I was too ambitious for my own good and she thought I was going to be disappointed.
Just because she settled for a man that had no drive to be anything more than a menial worker, doesn’t mean I had to settle. And I didn’t.
I made sure of it. I wanted to be something in this town and I made it happen.
And once I did, I cut them out of my life forever for doubting me.
But once I started my company and actually became something around here, I knew straight away that I wasn’t just going to dominate the business world. I was going to find my way into the legal and illegal realms. I wasn’t going to settle for just what people could see.
I wanted to know everything because knowledge is power. And it didn’t take me long to get that power.
I managed to find my way into whatever world I wanted and whatever people tried to stop me, regretted it.
I made sure of it.
But no one could ever understand me. When I met Addison I thought she was going to be the one that I would be with forever. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever met.
Her eyes are what caught me straight away and I could stare at them all day long.
She was a bit younger than me, but that didn’t matter to either of us.
We fell in love and I gave her the wedding of her dreams. Actually, I gave her everything she ever wanted.
But when she walked in on me and my associates teaching someone a lesson, she never looked at me the same ever again.
The look in those beautiful eyes of hers changed from that day on. She never looked at me the same way ever again.
She started challenging me, all the time. So I did what I had to do.
I showed her where her place really was in this house. And she wasn’t in charge.
It was just a slap here and a punch there. And that was around the time that I realized the dark world that I was walking into was really starting to rub off on me.
I mean, who can work in a dark world like that and not be affected by it. But she still didn’t understand.
And then she did what no wife has a right to do to her husband. She started resisting me. She tried to avoid me.
So I had to use force to subdue her during one particularly brutal fight that we were having one night.
I never meant to kill her, but that’s what happened.
She was my first.
I stood over her lifeless body and I heard whimpering in the corner. Seeing the kid standing at the doorway I screamed at her to get back to her room. So she ran away crying.
I made a couple of calls and almost instantly there were people at my door cleaning up the mess and getting rid of the body.
It was like it never happened.
And I’m not an idiot. I know that was a turning point for me. That’s when things really changed in my world.
But more importantly, I found out that I could challenge the law and my own morality. And look at where it’s led me. I’m still here and not for a lack of people trying.
All I needed from that bitch wife of mine was a son who could take over the business when I was done. But she couldn’t even do that. And I got stuck with that little bastard who has her mother’s eyes.
Every time I looked in those eyes it just caused me to lose my temper and I hated her for it.
I hated that she reminded me of her mother.
But as I was growing my business, there was one man that I wanted to collaborate with. I had a deal all worked out for him, but what he asked for in return surprised the hell out of me.
He wanted my daughter.
I didn’t have any use for her. I definitely didn’t have any feelings towards her. So why not use her as a bargaining chip.
She was underage so we knew that wouldn’t work until she turned 18, but we stayed in touch and we kept collaborating until it was time to hand her over.
But then this happened.
My little pawn has become uncontrollable. Allied with three boys who, for some reason, I can’t find any information on. I can find information on anyone. But these three have definitely got something to hide because I can’t find anything.
I had to know what they were and how strong they were. Because I’ve always known that there was something about them that wasn’t right.
So I put together that plan to kidnap Skylar to test how strong they were and far they were willing to go to protect her. Which almost caused me my life.
So I think it’s a fair assumption to say that they will go a fair way to keep her.
I don’t know why. She’s not worth much.
But not that I’ve been declared dead, I can move around a lot more freely now, and I have made a solemn vow to make that bitch and those boys pay.
No one tries to kill me and gets away with it.
They think I’m dead, so they are going to get one hell of a shock once I’m finished with them.
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