Chapter 24: Yes, My Love
Patro’s eyes flickered. He was dumbfounded.
What Malakai had just done, he didn’t expect it. Was he insane?
He slowly lifted his head to meet Malakai’s gaze, a smile drawn on the man’s face.
"What do you think you just did?" he questioned, voice vibrating.
Malakai watched him predatorily. "What do you think I just did, Patro?" he questioned him back.
Patro’s body trembled, and so did his hands which proceeded to clench into such tight fists, his knuckles turned paper white.
"You—"
"Shh." Malakai shushed him and walked over the table until he could stand before the man he was just about three inches taller than. He stared at him and cocked an eyebrow. "What did you think was going to happen, Patro? That I would stand and watch you humiliate my wife for your own pleasure?"
He let out a soft chuckle, amused. "That’s not possible. No man who adores his wife would let that happen, not even if it costs him his life. I think you should understand that. That’s your woman over there, right?"
He nodded towards Herla who was by the door of the restaurant and Patro followed his gaze. "Would you stand and watch me humiliate her? If so, I’ll allow you to do the same, but then you’ll also allow me to do the same to her. How does that sound?"
"Malakai, you don’t know who you’re messing with," Patro warned, eyes burning with animosity. "You don’t know what you’re doing—"
"Who the fuck do you think you are?" Malakai questioned him and gripped him by the chin. "Look at you. Do you think I’m the same Malakai who couldn’t do anything when you shot his sister and watched her bleed to death? Things are different now. I’m not beneath you, not anymore. What you’re capable of, I am equally or even better capable of. But I don’t think your empty skull has registered that."