Chapter Three
DIMITRI STEPPED INTO Shades, ready to drink his troubles away, the smell of beer and the loud raucous din of several conversations competing with each other, assaulting his senses. The entire drive over, he kept replaying the audacity of his father’s comments, Dimitri’s anger still hot. He couldn’t believe his father had been so cold and callus when it came to his children’s futures. Standing up for the family was one thing, helping out and pitching in another, but sacrificing your entire future for the family pushed that line a little too far. Dimitri would not sit still and allow his father to bulldoze over his life, like he did to the eldest Everest sibling. Fitz surrendered his destined mate for his father’s ambitions without even putting up a fight. It wasn’t right. The
