Chapter 100

Patrick Banks POV

“Patrick, just give them what they want.” Valerie pleaded, her voice dripping with fear. “Just tell them you’ll hand the company over to them!”

“He’ll have to sign the papers and everything. He can’t just say it and change his mind later.” The man moved closer to Valerie. “Just shoot him, so you can leave.” They had been trying to convince Valerie to pull the trigger.

Those men were crazy if they thought I was going to hand over my company to them. That was my family’s legacy and hell would freeze over before I would sign off ownership to them.

I couldn’t believe they even had the guts to ask me for my company. I offered to pay them any amount of money, but they wanted my company instead.

That wasn’t something I could do.

My gaze shifted to the gun. Did they really think before handing us guns to shoot each other? My hands tightened around the gun slowly. Instead of shooting Valerie — I could never do something like that — I thou