I starred at the man trying to figure out where I knew him from. Than finally something clicked in my head, I had seen him with Carter Verone at the casino. He must be one of his thugs. "No, I do not want to dance with you," I told the man, I than turned around to face Tej and to ignore the man.
"Fine, but Mr. Verone would like to speak with you up in the VIP lounge," the Spanish man spoke with his accent.
I spun around and pointed my finger in the man's face, "That's nice, you go tell Mr. Verone that I will never speak with him and to stay away from me and my family."
"Come on baby doll, let's go," Tej pulled me away from the man. I was glad he did because that man really got on my last nerve. We were walking toward the bar when I felt as if someone was watching me. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked around the club. I spotted Carter Verone standing on one of the balconies looking at me. Our met for a second and I could see something in his eyes, revenge.
"Maybe I should just talk to him," I told Tej, he has stopped walking when I stopped and was now standing next to me.
"No," Tej said bluntly. He grabbed my hand and tried to pull me closer to the bar.
"He's not going to just go away," I tried to reason.
"Brian and Rome can deal with him, it's not your problem," He held my hand tighter so I didn't try to leave him.
"It is my problem, it's my family," I mumbled under my breath and I knew Tej couldn't hear me over the music. I wasn't convinced that Brian or Rome could handle Carter Verone, he had money and he had power. Just from perception of the few times I had seen him, I could tell he wouldn't stop until he got revenge.
We got to the bar and Tej ordered a couple drinks. When he wasn't paying attention I slide my hand out of his. I pushed through the crowd, I could hear Tej yelling after me so I walked faster till I got to the entrance of the VIP lounge. There was a huge black man at the door, he was bouncer. I didn't even think for a second that he wouldn't let me in, I walked up to him with as much self confidence I could find. "I'm here to see Mr. Verone."
"Alexia Toretto right?" the bouncer asked me and I nodded, "Go on up he's been expecting you." The man moved out of my way and I started to run up the stairs. I spotted Carter Verone standing at the top of the stairs. Slowing down I looked behind me to see Tej trying to convince the bouncer to let him in.
"Glad you decided to come," Verone spoke with his southern accent and I gave him a fake smile.
"What the hell do you want? You leave my family alone?" I taunted.
"I want you."
"Excuse me?" I asked surprised by his rude comment.
"You can make up for Brian and Roman's mistake. I want you to do something for me and I leave your family alone."
"I'm not gonna sleep with you, your old," I told him almost gagging at the thought.
"I don't want to sleep you, I'm old enough to be your father." Verone laughed at the thought of us sleeping together. "I'm not sure what I want from you, but I'll be in contact."
"And you'll leave Brian and Roman alone?" I asked and he nodded in agreement, "and the rest of my family?"
"I will leave Dominick, Mia, Vince, Letty, Leon, Jesse, and Tej alone." I was a little shocked that he knew everyone's name, but the thought came to me that he may have been watching us for a while.
'Fine I'll do whatever you want," I agreed knowing that it was the best thing for everyone if I went along with his deal.
"Good I'll be in contact, you keep this between you and I," He spoke and I nodded in agreement. "Roberto escort her down to her friends." The Spanish man who had came up to me earlier led me back downstairs to the bouncer. Tej, Rome, Leon, Vince, Jesse, and Brooke were all arguing with the bouncer to let them come up.
"Alexia are you ok?" Tej asked almost tackling me when I got to the bottom of the stairs.
"I'm fine," I acted as if I didn't know what he was talking about.
"What he did say to you? Did he hurt you?" Rome asked.
"Who?" I asked playing dumb, "I just had to go to the bathroom and this nice man said I could use the one up there," I flashed a smile at the bouncer and he nodded in agreement.
"Let's go back to the hotel," Vince said and we all agreed.
A/N- Sorry this chapter was longer on paper. I hope it was ok though. I just want to give a special shout out to cheer, she always has wonderful advise for me and keeps me going, I love ya girl! Thank you to everyone who reviewed!
