Daddy's Bargain
“Gee, I wonder why, Dad. Maybe because you pissed off a Mafia don?”
“Stop it with the attitude,” he snapped. “Come home. Now.”
“I’m not running back to that house just because you said so.”
There was a pause. A dangerous one.
“Celeste,” he said slowly, “if you don’t walk out of that hotel in the next five minutes, I will send my men to get you.”
“You wouldn’t.”
“Yes,” he said. “I would.”
And he hung up.
I stared at the phone, shaking. I hated that he still had that effect on me, that he could just order my fear like he was ordering a drink.