Conner was sporting a black eye, looking absolutely bewildered at Annie. "You're a cop, how can you just go and hit your guy like that? If we tie the knot, am I ever gonna see a good day again?"

Annie took a deep breath, "Maybe if you had a bit of decency, you might."

Watching this whole drama unfold, Asher plopped down in a chair and quickly fired up the group chat with his brothers. "Breaking news: The thirteenth-gen head of the Nettleton family in Newtown just got a whooping from his fiancée, Annie Summers. And yep, it's the face that got the hit."

Mars was the first to jump in: ??? Domestic abuse?

Teddy piped up with a technicality: He's not married yet, doesn't count as domestic abuse.

Mars: Poor Conner can't even score a domestic abuse label.

Taking a second to reply, Conner shot back in the group chat: We're about to get hitched, so yeah, this is domestic abuse. How's it not?

Meanwhile, Andre was skimming through the group messages when he got sidetracked for just a moment. That's when his son Henry took the opportunity to snag Dad's fancy fountain pen and drew a deep scratch on the desk.

As a result, the pricey pen was toast.

And the multi-million dollar desk? Now it had a permanent mark.

his little office "renovator." Henry, grinning ear to ear, showed off the bent pen

lit up

"Find me a

"...What did Henry do

"Just find it."

"On it."

after Andre hung up, Noah's phone rang again. Picking

Henry's teary voice. The little guy, feeling all sorts of wronged clung to his dad's neck for comfort after getting scolded. Andre was on the edge, "Henry, that's the intercom, not a toy. You think you can just hit it whenever

hung up, his son pounced again, accidentally pressing the intercom

figuring it was another one of Henry's little misadventures, wisely hung up and got

in the group chat,

to get a

asked: Andre, you

end of

Conner, and give us a

here, spill the beans! We promise not

forever, maybe his wife

with his black eye, chimed in: His wife's been laying low lately. Andre's got a

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