Dorothy flinched, ducking away from his imposing figure, “You know, Mr. Lopez, you’ve been throwing around ‘can’t’ and ‘don’t’ a lot lately!”

Everything seemed to be off-limits now!

He was setting rules at every turn and she didn’t remember him being this domineering before.

“It’s because you’ve been flirting left and right,” he accused.

“I have not!” she retorted without missing a beat.

Everett raised an eyebrow. “Then what about Kenneth?” he asked.

Silence.

“And what about Lane?”

More silence.

“While we’re on the subject, I still need to settle the score with him.”

Simply tearing down The Prosperity Consortium wasn’t nearly enough.

Dorothy glanced at him, neither pleading for Lane nor intending to.

you did the crime, you’d

so how could Everett, her

to pick up the kids?” Dorothy didn’t have a shred of

kids away with Kenneth, mainly because she had

just

back out. The sooner he picked up

stand having his kids cared for by

“Your health…”

didn’t get his children back soon, that would be the least of his

his non-negotiable tone, Dorothy sighed in resignation, “Then why you

just Kevin

She knew it!

Karen was exhausted.

slept so soundly that her parents, along with Kenneth, had reported her

her bewildered for a moment

doing here?!” Karen’s voice startled Jeffrey from his

loosely draped around his waist, exposing his toned torso down to

yawned, rubbing his tousled hair, and sat up looking confused like a

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