“I am.”
I closed my eyes briefly.
That confidence should’ve irritated me by now. Somehow it usually did the opposite instead. Cole spoke like someone who already knew how things ended before everybody else reached the same conclusion.
Most of the time, he was right.
“You really did it,” I said softly before I could stop myself.
The line stayed quiet for a second.
“Did what?”
“Made him nervous.”
Cole’s low laugh came through the phone quietly.
“Brad should’ve been nervous sooner.”
“He wasn’t.”
“He is now.”
That part was true.
I thought about the look on Brad’s face when Ryan handed him the papers. Not anger immediately. Surprise. Real surprise, like he genuinely believed nobody would push back hard enough to disrupt the arrangement he built inside this house.
Wrong.
Completel
