Page 59 of A Billionaire Dom

Davin

Fall had officially arrived,but Houston’s weather hadn’t changed in the least. Even though I was still one of the first ones there, I didn’t get to the office as early as I usually did, which was probably why my shirt was already sticking to me under my suit jacket. Or it could’ve been because all the reasons I’d been late leaving.

I’d forgotten to charge my phone, so I’d had no alarm to wake me. Then I’d been in the shower when I’d realized that I’d forgotten to buy shaving cream – hence the reason I was sporting more scruff than I thought professional. After that, I’d spilled coffee on my shirt and had to change. Then there’d been the traffic, made worse than normal thanks to an accident.

All of that added up to me getting to work in a mood that guaranteed the first person to annoy me would get their head bitten off. When I saw Deklin pulling into the parking lot as I reached the front doors, I reminded myself that I didn’t need to go to him and demand to know what else Grandad had lied to us about.

Chances were, it’d just been Linsey talking about stuff she didn’t know, but even if she was right, Deklin didn’t need to be caught in the middle of this. He’d had enough shit going on in his life recently. Both of my brothers did, actually.

I’d focus on work, and if the opportunity presented itself, then I’d talk to Grandad. I wasn’t going to seek him out. This was the best way to handle things.

“Hey! Holden!”

I jerked to a stop at the sound of a woman’s voice, turning my head in time to see an angry Kasey Lee bearing down on me. She was tiny, but the fury on her face had me taking a step back despite the size difference in my favor.

I barely stopped myself from taking another one as she kept coming. She didn’t stop until she was barely a couple inches from me, our toes almost touching. Her head was tilted back so she could glare at me while she pointed.

“You hurt my friend.” She jabbed her finger into my chest.

“I don’t know what Linsey told you–”

“Nothing!” She cut me off. “Linsey didn’t say shit about what happened, which is how I know it was something bad because, if it was just two people deciding that they were done fucking, she wouldn’t have locked herself in her room the entire weekend and not said word one about you.”

Linsey had spent the weekend in her room? I frowned, concerned…and then shook my head. “We weren’t dating, Kasey. And what happened between Linsey and me is between Linsey and me.”

Kasey poked me again, this time hard enough to hurt. “I don’t give a fuck what you think the two of you were or weren’t. You hurt her.” She leaned in even closer, and her voice dropped until I almost couldn’t hear her. “If you come near her again, I will cut off your balls and feed them to you in a mincemeat pie. I don’t care who you are or how much money you have. You hurt her again, and I’ll hurt you. That simple.”

I couldn’t say that the threat surprised me as a general thing, but the specifics caught me more off-guard than they should have. I’d just started to think that I should call security when she spun around and stormed away, leaving me staring after her, my jaw hanging open. Fortunately, it was still too early for most of my employees to be here.

But one of them was.

“Who the hell was that, Davin?” Deklin hurried toward me. “Even from out there, I could see that woman was pissed at you.”

“Don’t worry about it.” I started walking again, heading for the elevator. It was only two flights of stairs, but after the morning I’d had, I was already too tired to take a single one.

Deklin followed me. “Seriously, who was that? What did she want?”

I sighed as we stepped into the elevator. I had to tell him. He’d trusted Damon and me with the truth of his parentage, and with what Jude had done. How could I not tell him that there might be something else that Grandad was hiding?

“That was Kasey Lee. She’s the best friend and roommate of a woman I’ve been…seeing.”

“The one Damon and Jae met when they were at the club with you?”

My head snapped around, and I caught him grinning at me. “What did Damon tell you?”

Deklin shrugged, looking rather pleased with himself. “Not much of anything, but he did tell me that you had a lady friend.”

I barked a laugh at the thought of Linsey hearing anyone refer to her as mylady friend. “Not much of a lady, and not much of a friend now either.”

Deklin’s smile faded. “So, that’s what it was about. You and the woman Damon met broke up, and her friend is mad on her behalf.”

I scowled. “We didn’t break up because we weren’t a couple.”

Deklin raised an eyebrow. “Are you sure about that?”

I blew out a long breath. “Look, Dek. I don’t know what Linsey and I were, but yes, it’s over. And yes, Kasey is pissed because Linsey and I aren’t whatever we were. But she doesn’t know the whole story.”

“Whatisthe whole story?”

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