Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 34098 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 114(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 34098 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 114(@300wpm)
The moment she walked into his bar, which had only been a week ago, Mason knew he was hooked. This wasn’t a one-time, two-time, or even a week-long thing. No, his feelings for Holly were not going away in a rush. This was the real fucking deal.
Scary as fuck. He couldn’t deny that. No woman had ever made him feel so possessive. He’d never missed a woman either. He’d not seen her for two of the days he’d known her, and that had been too much. Mason had never been the kind of man who allowed emotions to get in the way of business. He just didn’t. Holly was different. So fucking different.
And he was getting tired of William’s meddling. Entering the law firm, he had already called his man, Gary, the lawyer he used to help conduct his business. Gary had let him know that William was in the office all day.
Ever since he realized these feelings for Holly were not going away, Mason had asked Michael to find out every single little detail about William, also about Holly.
For the ten years Holly had been married, she had been loyal. There was nothing in her life that rang any alarm bells. She truly had been the loving, doting wife, who had been made to look like a fool at many occasions because William was such a fucking cheater. As for William, well, he had to wonder if Holly was aware of the three children he’d fathered. There was a reason he wanted to make partner, and was obsessed with work. A portion of his paycheck went to keeping the children and women out of his life. One of the women was from before he was married, but doing the math, Mason knew they had been dating when he knocked the first woman up.
The second two, well, they had happened within the first five years of their marriage.
William didn’t need to worry about money as he came from a wealthy family. The problem … they were old-fashioned. He couldn’t go running back to his father to ask to silence three women and keep three of his kids quiet.
There was a lot of bad shit in William’s past. Including and not limited to spending a fortune in Mason’s brothels. Yep, William liked his women willing. Crazy fucker. But William’s stupidity had been Mason’s gain.
He went straight to William’s office. The door was open and he stepped inside, watching William. William looked up and Mason saw the flash of fear in his eyes.
“I don’t believe we have an appointment. Would you like me to take you to Gary’s office?”
“I know where Gary is, trust me.” He closed the door. “I think you and I need to have a conversation.”
William stood. “We don’t have any appointments and I have a lunch date.”
“To silence your second child’s mother. I know.”
His eyes went wide. “How do you know that?”
Mason shrugged. “I have my ways.”
“Of course you do.” William ran a hand down his face.
All the other times he’d caught sight of William, the man had looked cocky, self-assured, confident. This man wasn’t. This man looked worn-down, tired, and scared.
He had no intention of killing William. It would be easy to do, but that would involve Holly, and he wasn’t going to allow his life to touch hers.
“Does Holly know?” William asked.
“That while you were telling her your career is more important than a family, you were screwing anything with a pussy, and knocked up three women in the process?”
William winced.
“No, she doesn’t know. She does know about the women, but she knew about them before I met her.”
“Holly is better than you,” William said.
“And she is better than you.”
“You’ve got to leave her alone. She doesn’t know who you are. She doesn’t know what you’re capable of.”
“And you think it’s your place to tell her all this bad shit?” Mason asked.
“She needs taking care of.”
Mason chuckled. “You decide that now? Why? Because she divorced your ass. Tell me, William, where were you when Holly wanted her husband? I know you had plenty of time to see your wife. Your law firm demands most of its members take time for their family.” Even though they often helped people who were on the dodgy side of the law, the reputation of the firm was always important. Gary had said they were all family men.
Looking at William, he knew his divorced status and especially the reason infidelity was a problem to the firm. There was a chance William could lose his job because of it.
Mason tutted.
“I love my wife,” William said.
“You do? You have a hard way of showing it.”
“She wouldn’t … she liked to work, okay? She didn’t just want to stay home, and I have work here. She didn’t do as she was told, and what did she expect?”