Revenge Plans

Elise's POV.

I looked back to see who was at the door.

"Jones." I gasped and darted my gaze at Adaline who had a frown on her face.

"How can you refer to me as 'a man' like you don't know my name!" Jones scolded her and glared.

They both glared at each other like they had argued before or they probably did and I failed to notice.

"What's wrong with the both of you?" I asked, curiously staring at them. "Did you quarrel?"

"No." Jones shook his head.

"That's a lie. We argued because he did something mean to me." Adaline raised her voice while pointing accusingly at him.

I had never heard Adaline yell before. He must have upset her.

"What did he do to you? Did he court you and go after another woman?" My assumption wasn't out of place because Jones wasn't a young man anymore.

Jones was in his late thirties when I met him and now, he's almost forty forty-four. I wanted to call him my uncle when we first met but he claimed he was too young for that.

He might be a few years younge