Chapter 145

Katerina fiddled with the strap of a handbag before setting it down on the table. “I'm sure that by now you know my grandfather is alive…”

“Yeah, I… that much was obvious when I saw him at the clearing that night.”

She blew out a nervous breath. “Okay, listen before you even say anything, I had no idea about it. I was pretty much in the dark up until a couple of weeks ago… I'm really sorry.”

Tyler was still smiling at her. “It's not your fault. I mean, your family kept a huge secret from you all these years and there's no way you could have known about him, right?”

She nods. “Of course.”

He sits up a bit. “Now, does what you have to tell me somehow about him in the story?

“Well, it turns out that he's actually a mob boss, and the whole reason why he got involved in this kidnapping shit, is because… he wants me to take over.”

Tyler's smile melted off his face, the shock obvious.

For a man who makes it really hard to know what he's thinking, the fact that he could be this shocked only