THIRTY

EVELYN TURNED to face him in a heartbeat. "Excuse me?"

"Why are you involved with my son?"

That question sounded borderline insulting and she wanted to spit out how she would never be actually involved with his son even if he was the only man on earth but from the way he had asked, she had a feeling Jason hadn't informed him about their fake relationship. There probably wasn't a strong relationship between the father and son as she had assumed. "'Cause he is my boyfriend and I like him," she found herself saying instead.

Case scoffed. "Nonsense. I know women like you. Women who leech on rich, kind men and siphon their money right off of them," he grounded out. "I won't let you do that to my son."

Evelyn almost guffawed. Did he just refer to his son as "kind"...? Hold up, that wasn't the point right now, did he just indirectly call her a "gold digger"?

A white-hot blaze of wrath engulfed her. Although she was drawn and tense, she lifted her head high. "Are you call