I Told You To Run But You Didn't (Georgia) novel Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Georgia’s POV

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Forty minutes. Twenty minutes to deliver the cargo, twenty minutes to get back. By the time I landed the Zivko Edge and taxied back to the hangar, Lucas and his minions were still standing there, looking completely out of place.

Patricia, however, was waiting right on the tarmac, waving ecstatically. The moment I stepped onto the ground, she rushed forward.

“You will not believe this!” she exclaimed, grabbing my hands. “General Larson was beyond impressed! You delivered it with time to spare! He signed the final contract on the spot. We did it, Gia! The deal is sealed!”

“I’m so happy for you, Tricia!” I said, pulling her into a tight hug.

Just then, Lucas started walking toward us. My eyes instinctively scanned the area, looking for Estevan, but he was nowhere to be seen. Patricia, who knows me all too well, leaned in and whispered, “He’s gone. Left a few minutes ago.”

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gave a small, disappointed nod just as Lucas reached us. “We need to talk,” he said, his tone grim.

Of course we do, I thought wearily. Here it comes. Another one of his talks filled with and criticisms of me.

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Patricia moved to step in front of me, ready to intervene, but I put a hand on her “It’s okay,” I said, nodding toward a woman

Uniform waiting nearby. “Go on. General Larson’s aide is waiting for you.”

“Are you sure?” she whispered, her eyes full of concern.

“Yes,” I said firmly.

She gave a reluctant nod, but not before sweeping a death glare over Lucas and his minions. Then she was

gone.

Kiara was the first to speak, her arms crossed as she looked me up and down with a contemptuous smirk. “Well, that was quite the performance. All this time, pretending to be a simple, dutiful wife. Was this your plan all along? To hide your little hobbies until you could use them to embarrass Lucas and attract a bigger fish like Mr. Salvatore?”

Peter chimed in with a condescending laugh. “I have to admit, I’m impressed. To think, a woman can actually fly a plane. Did you learn that so you could have something interesting to talk about at parties? Or is it just another way to get attention from powerful men?

Lucas just stared at me, his face a storm of conflicting emotions-shock, humiliation, and a deep. simmering anger. When he finally spoke, his voice was dangerously quiet.

“How long have you been deceiving me, Georgia Sinclair?”

He used my full maiden name. He wasn’t just mad. He was furious that there was a part of me he never knew, a part he couldn’t control.

“I wasn’t deceiving you, Lucas,” I said wearily, turning to walk away. I didn’t have the energy for this.

He followed, grabbing my arm again. I yanked it free, spinning around to face him. “Stop touching me!”

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Peter snickered. “Careful, Lucas. She might have a black belt, too. You never know what other secrets she’s been hiding in that quiet little head of hers.”

“He’s right,” Kiara added, her voice dripping with fake concern. “Who knows what else she’s capable of? It’s almost like she’s a completely different person. A liar.”

I let out a short, incredulous laugh, looking back and forth between Peter and Kiara. “Is it my fault that you’re both so threatened by a woman with actual skills Or is it just that you don’t have any talent of your own to speak of?”

Kiara’s face flushed with anger. “I’ve taken flying lessons My father owns several planes! It’s not my fault you had to learn everything the hard way, like a charity case. Some of us come from families with resources… unlike an orphan who has nothing and no one.”

The cruelty of the jab stole my breath for a second, but refused to let her see it land.

“Exactly!” Peter chimed in eagerly. “Kiara is way better than you, Georgia! Way, way better!”

The sheer absurdity of it all made me laugh again, a genuine, dismissive sound. “Good for her. I’m not aware that we’re in a competition.”

Lucas let out a frustrated sigh and opened the passenger door of his car. “Georgia, get in. We’ll talk at the villa. You have a lot to explain.”

“Explain what? There’s nothing to explain,” I said, glancing at the car. Did he really expect me to ride in the backseat while Kiara sat up front with him? The insult was laughable. “And I’m certainly not getting in that car with them.”

Just then, Kiara tightened her grip on Lucas’s arm, adopting a tone of urgent importance. “Lucas, don’t forget,” she purred, loud enough for me to hear. “We have that dinner meeting with the new investors from Geneva. I’m the one who arranged it. You can’t miss it by wasting your time on… this.”

Peter smirked, seizing the final word. “She’s right, Lucas. You have important business to attend to. Let the pilot find her own way home. I’m sure she can handle it

I watched them drive off and let out a long sigh, the tension finally leaving my shoulders. Dealing with those people was utterly exhausting. I turned and started walking toward the main road to find a taxi, only to dead when a gleaming black Mercedes pulled up silently beside me.

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