Page 23 of The Dom's Sinful Desires
Chapter Eight
Adam was just walkingtoward the house when they pulled in.
“Hey, how’d it go?”Adam asked.His smile dropped when Drew shook and jerked his head.He nodded toward the house.“Let’s get inside.”
Hailey went directly to the coffee maker and started making some as she chatted on.“We got to the corner store, where I did find a flash drive.It’s not great, but it will work.But they didn’t have anything close to the software I need, so I’ll have to order that online.We really do need to get some more stores around here.I don’t want to have to drive an hour to get basic things.We left before we could get groceries ...but no worries.We’ve got everything we need for a few more meals...”
“Hailey, enough.Come here,” Adam demanded and held out a hand.He pulled her into his lap and hugged her to his chest.“Everything’s going to be okay, love.”
Hailey sat stiffly in his lap and looked down at her hands in her lap.
“What happened?”Adam asked.
Drew looked at Hailey and waited to see if she would explain.He sighed when she sat mute.
“We were in the grocery store...”
“I’ll tell him, Drew,” Hailey interrupted, then cleared her throat and looked up at Adam.“You know Joey, the banker’s son?”She waited until he nodded.“He ...he always wants to talk to me if I’m in town.He knows I’m married, but he’s ...I don’t know, a little slow or something?Anyway, today he had me cornered against some shelves when Drew found us.I was telling him to back off, and he wasn’t listening to me this time...”
“This time?He’s had you pinned against something before?”Adam asked.
Hailey shivered and swallowed at the deadly tone of Adam’s voice.She’d never heard that depth of anger from him before.
“Um, yeah.But he’s harmless...”
“Why haven’t you told me this before now?”
Hailey cringed and glanced at Drew, saw his angry expression mirrored Adam’s, and looked back down.“You do all your banking with his father...”
“So?”Adam bit out.
“You’re always so busy, and I knew it would be a pain in the ass to deal with something I was dealing with.”
“How exactly were you dealing with it today?”
“I was about ready to knee him in the balls when Drew came.”She turned and scowled at Drew.“Instead, I had to prevent him from killing the guy.He had him off the ground by his neck.”
“Good.I would have done the same thing,” Adam admitted.
“He almost killed the guy,” Hailey burst out.“His face was blue, for God’s sake.”
“I don’t give a fuck.He put his hands on you.”The words tore out of Adam’s mouth.
Hailey grew quiet.She knew she was making things worse.
Adam sighed and looked across the table at his brother.“I need to go have a talk with Marshall.”
“This is what I was worried ab...”
“Hush,” Adam growled.“Did you really think I wouldn’t take care of this?”
“I don’t see why you can’t let me handle it?”
“So, he’s the banker, right?”Drew asked.
Adam tore his gaze from his wife and cleared his throat.
“Yeah, Marshall Van Meter.Do you remember him?He was a few years older than me?”
