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“Well, there’s probably nothing in here anyway,” she folded her arms over her chest defiantly.
“For your sake I hope you’re correct. As it is, I’ve already revealed far too much to them with the conversation we’ve had
thus far considering I set a woman up knowing she’d take the bait and then sued her for it.” He shrugged, “not that I care. My lawyer already answered all those questions in court.”
Two men came into the space with Thisbe and January recognized both men as people who’d been assigned to her more than once. The one she knew as Ioannis was sliding earphones onto his head and was adjusting a device that he was barely balancing in his hands. The other man, Adonis, was holding something no bigger than a cell phone and was waving it around as soon as Gulliver gave him the nod to begin.
Instantly the device in Adonis‘ hand started screeching and January noted the way her father sat up straighter, as if offended and furious. Adonis looked at Ioannis who adjusted his own device and pointed it towards a thermostat.
“Check them all. No exceptions.” Gulliver ordered the two other
men.
When the first thermostat was pulled open and a tiny device was þúfed out, January felt her nose stinging with the need to cry at
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the betrayal of their trust but before she could truly react, the device in Adonis‘ hand began sounding again. He looked at Ioannis and they both looked up to a vent which was set up for
the HVAC unit.
Gulliver, easily the tallest man in the room, walked to the vent and twisted it downward and pulled it out. He yanked hard on a wired in device, “this is video.” He held up the tiny camera, “a camera hardwired into the electricity in your home. He has cameras in your home, Terrance. You question me whether or not your daughter was ever in danger in my home, and the answer was a resounding no and yet, in your home, she is at risk of her being recorded and exploited. What are the chances you’ve walked through this room in your underwear, January? How many times does our daughter come into this room naked perhaps after a bath or getting ready for bed? I know Mitsos is six, approaching seven, and he loves to wander around wearing barely nothing. Is Kaylee any different?”
She shook her head wordlessly as she paled and wrapped her arms around her belly. How many times had her daughter done exactly that?
“So, the FBI has video of our daughter naked. Nice. I hope that fucker or one of his friends are still listening because I feel the litigation from this unsanctioned surveyance is going to be a nightmare for the American government. Did you sign anything giving them authorization to record you?”
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“No. I’ve signed nothing.” Terrance shook his head.
“They gave us everything already done. Driver’s licenses, banking stuff, everything.”
“They did it as a tradeoff thinking that perhaps January knew more than she let on and was hiding information from them. They made you feel secure, trustworthy but they were using you. Joke was on them because I know for a fact my wife knew nothing.”
“Not your wife.” She mumbled angrily, hating that he was so smug in the moment.
Her father was getting off the chair and was following the men around looking at every single device they were pulling from the
house.
In the end, six video feeds, twelve audio devices and one device nobody quite knew the purpose of but was still emitting signals, were pulled from the house. While there were no cameras in the bedrooms or bathrooms, the bedrooms did have audio in them. Outside the men noted on a power pole that there seemed to be surveillance focused on the house.
“How violated are you feeling, January?” Gulliver’s face was mocking. “On a scale of one–to–ten.”
She was tired of his arrogance, and she gave him an a
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“oh, I don’t know, Gulliver. I mean it sucks and it’s definitely a violation but if I’m comparing how violated I felt today versus how I felt when I stood outside your office at the house and heard you tell Thisbe that she should keep her mouth shut and continue lying to me for the rest of my life. I mean, knowing the man I’d had sex with only a few hours before that, had made me an unknowing mistress to a man who I thought loved me. Instead, I was a fucking joke, and it hurt. I think my trust and heart being betrayed that day, still feels worse than this.”
“Fair.” He rolled his shoulders out as if he were letting the weight of her anger settle there and absorbing it. “We’ll work through it.”
“As if.”
“We will work through it for the sake of our daughter. Who,” he looked around the room, “should be almost finished school for the day. Today you will be telling her that you lied to her about her daddy and that I am here, in the flesh and I very much want to be part of her life. You will make it a positive experience for her, and I don’t care what you tell her to make it so, but you will make it positive, January.”
“I hate you.”
The vitriolic words spewed from her lips.
gain, I feel your emotions are fair.” He looked at his men,“ag
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all the devices disabled?”
“Yes.”
“Good. The Ziogas family is ruthless. While my family is much more profitable, secure, and respected, their family is the kind of family you hire to do the shit nobody else wants to do. I hid our relationship, our marriage from them, January, because Duchess would have no problem walking up to you and stabbing you in the heart for nothing more than being in her way. I needed to protect you from a raging psychopath who comes from a family of brutal bastards.”
“You think January could have been killed by this family?”
“Yes. I do.”
“You don’t think she’s still at risk?”
He gave a single shake of his head, “in the past I didn’t have my grandfather’s support. I was working on my own with only Glenn backing me. Even my parents were following my grandfather’s lead. I needed to play along to keep her protected. Now? Now I have a fucking army bigger than the American one, that is for sure, at my disposal. If anyone is capable of keeping January safe, it is me.”
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Grandfather’s support, systemically destroyed their business in a hostile takeover. He owns everything that was theirs and has left them only their family home. When that bitch ever gets out of prison, she’ll be extradited back to Greece because she’s not an American citizen. They’re fucked.”
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