Chapter Seventeen

I should have known that Jake was a coward, I didn't know why I had felt so threatened by him in the first place. Although I didn't show it, the comment he made the last time we had spoken, really got to me.

He had not just threatened to come after me alone, he had threatened my entire family and our entire business as well. I had been so fear-stricken, though I tried not to show it, Liam always saw through everything.

He noticed how pale and out of it I had gotten after my conversation with Jake so we had our little conversation as well.

"So what was that all about?" He asked me that night after we all got back from the hospital.

He and Emily had offered to keep me company, pending the time that Kate would wake up and be back in the house. We had just finished eating dinner and Emily had retired to bed.

She was now seven months gone and her due date was fast approaching, not to mention she had also undergone a huge deal of stress throughout the day and stress like that was not go