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Ben couldn’t believe the rest of the conversation that transpired afterward. Ambra and he stood in front of the door to the restaurant.

“We are not working for that man.” Ambra hissed low to him.

“No, we will not. We have enough problems already.” He pointed out.

She scowled at him.

Both their phones went off at the same time. She glanced down at her phone and smiled, stepping away from him.

He glanced back into the restaurant to see Silas standing, paying the bill. He was surprised because Silas didn’t look tall sitting down, but the man, from what Ben could see now, was taller than him, and he had a cane that he was using to stand up. Going on his gut intuition that whatever Silas was into, it was bad business, and then he was distracted when he heard. “Thank you for the flowers, but you can forget about that happening tonight; it will take more than just flowers and you telling me what you would like to do to my body.” She cleared her throat, giving away that whatever Michael wrote had affected her. “To get back into my good books.”

He could picture his brother not looking very happy over the news and chuckled before his humor was snatched away when he took his phone out of his pocket, swiping to see the notification that his wife had gone somewhere.

She’d left and was at the airport.

Chapter14

Diamond had just gotten out of the shower when she heard the knocking on the door. Her mood lifted because the food they’d ordered had arrived, and she was starving and tired from her flight here.

She wrapped her hair in a towel as it dried and grabbed the satin bathrobe and rushed into her slippers as the knocking became more insistent.

She opened the door of the bathroom, and the steam from her hot shower escaped.

Diamond didn’t hear anything from the other room and called out that she would go and get the meal from the Uber driver.

Her steps took her to the door, and she opened it without checking and stiffened, glaring into silver eyes that glared back.

Ben pushed past her, coming into the room. “What do you think you are doing Ben?” Diamond closed the door and faced her husband, whose face, as usual, didn’t express how he was feeling, but his eyes this time were so dark, they looked like angry storm clouds.

“Where is the bastard?” He growled, his gaze sweeping over her, and his anger went up a notch.

He turned and began to head toward one of the bedrooms. “Ben, it is not what it looks like.” She grabbed his arm to stop him, but he just kept going.

She raced around him and placed herself spread-eagle over the bedroom door.

“Don’t you dare make a scene; this is not—”

The bedroom door opened behind her, and she turned her head to see a confused and angry Bryce standing there naked with his cock erect, and she groaned. Just as Ben's fist flew past the top of her head and hit Bryce square in the jaw, making him take a step back.

Shaking his head, Bryce charged, but Diamond was in the way. “What the fuck do you think you are doing, and how are you in my house, you crazy bastard?”

She felt Ben's hands on her shoulders as he was trying to move her out of the way, but she dug in her heels. He just lowered them to her waist and lifted her out of the way of the path of Bryce trying to get at him.

They were about to get into it when the other bathroom on the other side opened up and a confused and semi-naked Peter looked on. She sighed. At least he’d had the thought to put something on before coming out after hearing the ruckus going on.

“What the hell is going on?” Peter roared.

Ben froze, his gaze turning to the new person in the room. Bryce took advantage of the momentary distraction and hit Ben in his jaw and then his eye, stopping when Diamond screamed in rage and got in the middle of them. Peter pulled Bryce off of Ben.

They all stood there glaring at each other, breathing hard. But then Ben’s gaze landed on her, and what she saw sent her heart racing with fear.

“It is not what it looks like, Ben.” She pleaded, running over to him and grabbing his arm as he turned to leave.

“Let that mutherfucker go, Diamond. You don’t need him. I will help you to fix—"

Ben reached back and removed her hand.

Her head whipped around, and she glared at Bryce. “I came here after one of the staff from the charity called to give me your message, Bryce, saying it was an emergency. I didn’t know I was going to be ambushed by you and Peter. I thought someone found out about the two of you and you needed my help.”

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