Chapter 55

Viktor

“You're too damn cowardly to open the door? See what you've done to us. To our family? You freaking fool.”

His muffled voice was slurring, slow as he banged against my door. It told me all I needed to know about his drunk state.

“All would've been well if you'd dealt with that…girl a long time ago. Now she and that bastard destroyed our company. Our reputation.”

The girl in question was Eva. For the first time in the past two days I felt something else apart from hollow emptiness and self loathing. Heat swirled in my belly.

None of this was her fault, but of course he was looking for the nearest person to blame, like the coward he was.

“I should have never put you in charge.” he groused and it took everything in me to not run over to punch him.

‘Like you were doing any better?’ I wanted to retort. He was a horrible CEO, embezzling the money that we had. It was why I had to take over as soon as possible almost immediately after I was done with college, in workload e