Chapter 14Katherine’s request had taken Rhys off guard. She’d called and asked if he would meet with her when Liam was out of town, alone. Rhys tried to beg off, but she refused to allow him.
“It’s time you and I talked. No excuses,” Katherine steamrolled over him until he had no choice but to accept her invitation.
She rattled off directions and hung up, leaving Rhys unnerved.
This bar wasn’t the sort of place he expected her to have chosen. Small and tucked away off a side street in a rougher section of Queens. Rhys pushed open its heavy wooden door and stepped into the bar. The interior, oak paneling, the cloying odor of a thousand cigars buried within its walls.
His eyes adjusted painfully to the sudden suffocating dark. Rhys squinted as he scanned the booths in the back until he s
