“Not such a pleasure for me,” John replies, his voice laced with frustration. “I’ve been calling all morning and have been told for hours that you’re too busy to take my call.”
“Not too busy,” Victor says, tired of this already. “I just have no real desire to speak to you.”
“Don’t you take that tone with me, boy,” Walsh hisses, riled by Victor’s open disrespect. “Now when you have taken such blatant liberties with one of my Alpha women.”
“Quit playing at it, Walsh,” Victor says, deciding to take a hard line with this man. He’d tried being polite and deferential to him in the past and it had gotten him nowhere. “She’s been living under my roof for months and is only under your tenuous control by dint of one hotly contested piece of paper.”
“Or do I need to remind you,” Victor continues,
