Semua Bab Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing: Bab 11 - Bab 15

Layla's POVThe private room above the tavern smelled of old wood and lamp oil. I sat at the head of the table while a man I'd never met read numbers off a tablet."Total personal transfers from your account to the Thorne Pack over the past six months: four million seven hundred and thirty thousand." He swallowed. "Night Veil subsidiary operations provided the Pack with preferential trade rates, supply-chain access, and logistical support worth more than that number."He kept talking, eyes lifting from the tablet every few sentences to steal a glance at me. I stopped listening.Brenna cleared her throat. The man's eyes dropped back to his screen."Combined total across direct transfers and all subsidiary support channels—" he cleared his throat— "approximately eleven million, six hundred thousand."He'd been sneaking glances at me since he walked in, trying to reconcile the teenage girl in the oversized jacket with the person his boss called boss.This tavern was one of dozens of prop

Layla's POVBrenna and I arrived in understated formal black. My hair was down. No jewelry. Brenna wore fitted trousers and a structured jacket that looked elegant until you noticed how she moved in it."They went all out." Brenna whistled through her teeth as we approached the packhouse.The entrance was lined with imported lanterns. White flowers trailed from every column, their sweetness so thick it caught in the back of my throat. A quartet was playing on the front steps."This isn't the look of a Pack that just lost its funding."I'd been thinking the same thing.The first set of guards waved us through without a second look. They were almost polite about it.Brenna raised an eyebrow as we passed. "I was expecting worse.""Probably didn't recognize me. Watch."Words barely out, another guard stepped into our path. He looked at me, then at Brenna, and his hand came up."Miss Thorne." A nod at me, then a flat stare at Brenna. "Your companion doesn't have clearance.""She has an inv