Page 21 of Legally Yours

“Is everything okay? I heard you screaming.” I run my eyes over her, and she regains control of her breathing.

“I… I went to my…dressing room.” She takes a huge breath so her breathing is more regular. “David was there. He’s drunk, and he kept harassing me about getting back together with him. Nothing I said made him stop.”

“What happened here?” I softly touch the darker area on her brown skin.

“He grabbed my arm. Kept saying that we would be back together again even though he knows that you and I are married!”

My heart begins to pound loudly in my chest as I see a red mist in front of me. Slowly, I hand the bouquet of flowers to my wife. “These are for you. Congratulations for the hard work you did this morning. Now, I’m going to deal with this.” I stalk off toward David, who has come shuffling to the backstage area.

“Cassandra, please. Drop Anderson and get back together with me,” that slimeball says.

Hearing that, anger rushes through me like electric current. I haul off and punch. “David, she’s not going to be with you. I married her and that’s how it’s staying.”

David punches me back, and it surprises me he can even see straight.

It’s on! I draw my arm back, and punch him again. As he hits and shoves me, I grab both off his wrists and twirl him around. I hold his wrists painfully tight, refusing to let go.

David pulls out of my grip.

“Liam! David! Stop fighting!”

We continue to throw blows. I feel the flash of a camera.Oh, fuck. Now I’m in trouble.Seeing David’s fist coming to my face, I grab it and force it away from me.

“Stop!Stop fighting!” Cassandra’s voice is hoarse, but she still manages to shout.

I don’t let go of David. I feel him struggling and keep my grip tight. I feel Cassandra’s arms go around me. Then, I feel the struggle and tension leave David’s arms and let go.

Oh, hell. Paparazzi. This is going to hit the scandal rags by tonight.“Cassandra, I’m sorry. I lost it when I heard him asking you to get back together with him.”

Now, two of the stagehands get David’s arms. “Get him out of here.” I wait until I know their grip on him is solid.

Cassandra pulls me into an unoccupied room, where she looks at my cuts and bruises. “Oh, Liam. I’m taking you home to fix these.”

A security guy tells me that Emma has taken David to the hospital because of all the bruises on his face. Good! Maybe one of these bruises will stay visible and teach him not to mess around.

“Cassandra, I need to call my PR man. Do you want to stay here with me?”

She nods, and I think she’s still a little scared after what David did to her.

I punch the entry for my PR team and wait. Finally, someone answers.

“Hello, Liam? What’s up?

I sigh. “A nasty fight between me and one of my former executives. He was harassing my wife, trying to get her to leave me and go back to him. When I heard him, well, I saw red and punched him a few times. I don’t want this blowing up into a scandal that involves an innocent person.”

My public relations person sighs deeply, and I imagine him pinching the bridge of his nose between his fingers. “Liam, you’ve never done that before! You couldn’t control yourself?”

“Not if you heard what he was saying to my wife, no. He was chasing her through the halls here. He cornered her in her dressing room and wouldn’t stop, from what Cassandra says. Can you get those pictures out of circulation? I’ll pay whatever it takes.”

After we hang up, I begin to wonder about how I reacted.Am I falling in love with Cassandra? Ifeel so protective when she’s in any kind of unpleasant situation. David has no business being around her.

“Why don’t you lie down and take a nap? I need to finish this, then we’ll go home,” I say to her.

Cassandra nods. “Today was really scary. He just wouldn’t leave.”

I move towards her and take her hand. “Come on.” After she has sat down, I ask her what happened in her dressing room.

“He wouldn’t leave. I told him to leave. He said he was sorry and wanted to get back together with me. I asked him if he would cheat on me again, if we got back together. Do you know what he said?”

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