Kylie Bray (Love, Hate and Billions) novel Chapter 7

Sneaking a glance from the corner of my eyes I stare at his face,

Our eyes lock and my breathing labored.

My body freezes, Unbending at the scrutiny in his transfixed stare.

I'm not fooled by the casualness he is trying, and succeeding to impersonate, a little too well when he asks,

“Who's the brains behind this one?”

And neither is Diamond as we exchange a silent agreement when she shifts.

Years of friendship make it easy for us to communicate without words.

We both knew this morning when we decided to do this that he of all my brothers would suspect something because of where we were going.

But he doesn't need to know we already thought about all of that.

We have our own agenda tonight.

And although Vincent is on to us,

He lacks something vital, something only Kevin has- true perception.

You can't have it if you have emotion and my brother Kevin has non of that, he feels nothing, too bad for Vincent he isn't here.

I wouldn't tell any of that to Vincent, he is cold and mean but he has emotion.

Lots of it going by the hard angry glare he is giving us as he taps his fingers restlessly on his thighs waiting for us to answer.

Diamond shrugs as if she doesn’t give a shit about anything, which she actually doesn't unless there's tequila involved or a score to settle.

I was the shit she first gave to when I decided to be a wing-man to my douche-bag classmate, Aldane McDonelly two years ago.

Why? Because, where I come from there’s a thing called hierarchy and I am top of the food chain.

I am a Bray and part Stone which means I am a LEADER. And I didn't just lead, I RULED Liston High Private school.

Some preppy footballer thought he’d try take over, so it was his party I was attending with Aldane.

At the time I didn't realize the only wing Aldane wanted me to man was the one between his legs when he spiked my drink.

Michael and Kevin got there just in time.

And even though Kevin beat the crap out of him, Aldane ended up with lice on his dick, compliments of Diamond of course.

To say I made his life hell after that was a child's statement to what I really did. My family bugged me to press charges but I was no pushover. His daddy might be a man with connections but I have an entire family of them.

Aldane was denied entry into every university he applied to.

His football career was over.

By the time I was done, the boy couldn't even get into a low grade college in Hong Kong. His father eventually kicked him out last fall, when he was charged with assault.

The rest, well I don't give a damn, he wasn't important enough, to begin with.