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"I’d still like to see the papers," I say gently. "Please." I want to make sure Josh isn’t trying to sue her for shit that never happened.

Dani bites her bottom lip, looking everywhere but my face before she opens her purse and pulls out an envelop. "I don’t think I’m supposed to be showing you this, but I know you and you won’t drop it until I do. Don’t tell Mark." She says, pushing it across the desk. "I have no idea what any of it says."

"You worked here for almost four months, and you can’t read this?"

"I can read it!" she snaps. "I just don’t know what it means. They use too many legal terms." Dani crosses her arms and sits back against the chair.

"Maybe if you focused on your work instead of trying to get your boss into bed, you would understand what this says," I smirk.

"Maybe if said boss didn’t have me bent over his desk so much, I would have learned a thing or two," Dani says with a grin.

"I’m not sorry about that." I admit. "And I’d do it again in a fucking heartbeat." I meet her eyes, hoping to find forgiveness but finding sorrow instead. I remove the papers and skim over them.

Josh is countersuing Dani for neglect of Mason causing bodily harm and false allegations of assault. Stating that if she was home and not sleeping around, Mason would have never been hurt. He also states he never laid a hand on Dani and that all the scars on her body were self-inflicted.

"This is ridiculous. You had no way of knowing that Mason was going to get hurt when he went out. Also, there’s proof that he abused you. In hospital records and on your body." I hand the papers back and she stuffs them back in her purse.

"Josh is a Whitlock, he comes from old money and according to Mark, John has half the judges on his payroll." She stands, shouldering her purse. "Let’s hope Mark is a good lawyer or I’m fucked."

Burn The World Down

Dani

Erin called as I was leaving my meeting with Mark and asked if I wanted to come over for drinks. There was no way I was turning that down after the afternoon I had. I dropped my shit off at home and changed into some more comfortable before heading over.

I don’t bother knocking, I just walk in. "Put your dick away, Jakey, I’m here!" I holler, kicking the door shut and strolling into the kitchen.

In all the years they have been married, I have only walked in on them once. And that’s only because they were fucking in the kitchen. I refused to eat at that table until they decontaminated it with hospital grade disinfectant.

"You missed it by ten minutes, Doll." Jake answers. "But I can give you a peek, if you'd like."

I snort out a laugh and find Erin sitting at the table, cramming her face with stuffed peppers. Her red hair is a wild mess and her pale skin is flushed.

"You’ve got sex glow." I tell her.

Erin winks with a grin and points to the chair across from her with her knife. I sit and a plate with two stuffed peppers appears before me.

"Thanks, Jakey." I smile up at him.

"You know I aim to please, Doll." He kisses my forehead and leaves the kitchen. I cut into the massive pepper and shove it in my mouth.

"Luke called me," Erin says with her mouth full.

"Why?"

"We talk."

I narrow my eyes. "You lie."

"Nope. We talk once a week. He wants to make sure you and Mason are okay and that Josh has been leaving you alone."

I don’t like them talking, she knows too much. "I would appreciate it if you stopped talking to him. He doesn’t need to know what’s going on with me."

"Do you know what the first thing out of his mouth is every time we talk?" Erin asks, completely ignoring what I just said. She’s on a mission and will ignore everything I say until she gets her point across.

"Is she safe." Erin smacks the table with her hand, rattling the dishes and making me jump. "Is she safe! That man is madly in love with you. I have told you this before, and yet, you refuse to believe me."

She shoves another piece of pepper in her mouth and reaches across the table, taking my hand and giving it a squeeze. "That man has done more for you and Mason in the short time you were together than any man you've ever been with. He still feels like shit about what happened over two months ago."

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