Lahat ng Kabanata ng Hunky Daddies For An Innocent Lady: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

“He’s all right, isn’t he?” Gomez now looked alarmed.“Came to a girl’s aid when she was being picked on by three guys. Those guys jumped him. Principal tried to expel him because he’s a scholarship student and those boys said he started it. Those boys’ parents are also lining the principal’s pockets.”Something changed in Gomez then. The heat in his rage disappeared and he became chillingly cold. This Gomez . . . he was absolutely terrifying.“What?” he whispered.Deadly. Furious. He would terrify her if he wasn’t mad on behalf of her kid.“I’m dealing with it,” Saber said. He didn’t even seem to notice that Gomez had turned into an ice-cold warrior king.“You need me to make him disappear?”“I don’t think we’ll have to. Ink’s kids go to that school.”“Ink’s kids?”“Yeah, remember that his woman has those twin stepsons?”“I remember. They’d be what? Seventeen? Eighteen?”“Think so,” Saber replied. “Anyway, they must have cameras everywhere in that school. They handed the principal hi

“All of them? Do we pay her enough for that?”“If it was anyone else, I’d say yes. But I don’t want her stressed out.” He didn’t like how often her door had been knocked on in the short time they were together just before.“Keep an eye on that,” Saber commanded. “She’s got a lot going on. She doesn’t need extra stress.”“Her boy is good?”“Sixteen going on forty. Seems like he tries to take care of her as much as she does him. Smart. Empathetic. Yeah, he’s a good kid. But he shouldn’t be putting up with shit from rich assholes at his school.”“Do you want me to take care of that?”“I’ve got some names, I’ll send them to you. You see what you can find out. All of this will likely be coming from their fathers.”“Want to send a warning?” Gomez asked.“Yeah. A warning to begin with. More if necessary.”“I’ll get onto that.” Nothing would give him more joy.“We also need to do something about her upstairs neighbor. He’s been keeping her up late at night. I’ll send one of the guys around to

“I will.”“Good. Now, show me.”“Um, show you what?” she asked, confused.“Show me your knee. I want to check that it’s not bruised.”He was joking, right?But this was Gomez. He didn’t seem to joke much.“I’ve got pants on,” she told him.“If they don’t roll up, then you can just take them off.”“No, I can’t.”What the heck? Was he really expecting her to just take her pants off?Sheesh.Luckily, they rolled up and he inspected her leg. His hands felt so hot and firm against her skin.She had to hold back a shiver of pleasure.Lord, imagine how she would feel if he touched her with purpose? With affection, with caring. With the intent to actually cause her pleasure.She might self-combust.“Are you all right, sweetheart?” he asked quietly.“Um, yes. Really, my knee is fine. I’m fine.”He gave a nod and then stared down at his hands before he stood abruptly and stepped back. “You’re here early.”“Um, yes. I had some things to catch up on.”“If your workload is too heavy, then you shou

Acting on instinct, without even thinking about it, she grabbed his hand.He jolted and she let go. “Sorry.” Crap. She was messing up all over the place.But to her shock, he reached out and took her hand. “You don’t have to keep saying sorry. You have nothing to apologize for. And you didn’t upset me. Sometimes, I . . . sometimes I get so involved in the details that I forget about the emotions. My childhood, well, it was all about emotion. And not the good kinds. As a result, I became rather detached from all of that. I’m trying to find a way to be more in-tune with my emotions. But it’s not easy.”Her heart melted for him. She squeezed his hand. “It’s all right. I understand.”“Just be patient with me.” Letting go of her hand, he walked out.Yeah, things had definitely changed. Because no boss acted that way with their employee. They might be friendly, they might tease. But they didn’t sandwich them between them.Or cup the side of their neck with their big hand.Or hold their hand

However, they hadn’t figured out how to move forward with showing her that they wanted more than a boss-employee relationship with her. Then he caught sight of her eyes. Her pupils were enlarged.“Has she been drinking?” he asked, looking over at Nate. “What is she even doing here?”She should have gone home hours ago. Shit. Why hadn’t he checked in with Raul that she’d gotten home? He’d been running around doing shit all night at some of Saber’s other businesses and had barely had a minute to spare.Saber was talking to his lieutenants about some stuff that had been going on around the city lately. In particular, he wanted to warn them that Wolfe and a few of the Rykers were still around and to watch out.So he hadn’t checked to make sure she’d gotten home safe.A mistake.“She’s been filling in,” Nate told him. “Vanessa didn’t turn up.”Gomez frowned. “Lucy, call her. Tell her she’s fired.”“All right, Mr. Gomez. But what do we do about Elle? She’s been acting strange for the last h