“You had until today to return her, or I was turning the business to Tariq. I wanted to see she was indeed present and not a ruse. The pair of you are quite cunning. I wasn’t sure Dimitra hadn’t created some kind of video to screw with us. If she wasn’t here, I was calling Tariq.”
“Vasili,” Miklos held his eyes coldly, “you could have turned it over to Tariq and it would not have forced me to make her come home. She is here of her own volition.”
“It was a dangerous game to let her go!” he slapped his hand against his knee.
“I did not let her go. She left. She’s a grown woman with a mind of her own. Had she decided she was not coming home with me after our conversations, I would have supported her decision.”
“You would disobey a direct order from the head of this family?” Vasili asked c
