“That’s enough. You don’t need to apologize to her.” Quincy’s look toward Pearl softened into something almost tender. Even the way he spoke to her was gentle. “She’s only using her mother’s situation to ask me for money. Just give it to her.”
“Quincy, my brother is vulnerable. He can’t go to jail…” Pearl pleaded in a pitiable voice.
Quincy looked at Alannah and tore off a check, tossing it at her like a slap. “One million. Is that enough?”
Alannah bent to pick it up and stared at the string of zeros as if they were mocking her for the fact that she had ever loved this bastard.
When she didn’t react, he tore off another check and let it flutter to the floor.
“Two million? Three million? Alannah, name your number…”
She stooped and gathered the checks one by one.
Quincy took her silence for capitulation, and his face curled into a sneer.
What he didn’t expect was what came next. Calmly, Alannah tore each check into pieces and scattered the shreds at his feet.
She said nothing. She only looked at the two of them with a cold, hard gaze.