“Me? I’m not the one who chased his wife out of his room. I saw your wife sitting down the hallway crying her eyes out. That woman loves you, and ...ou don’t seem to care,” Sonny said. He leaned over towards Mike and added, “If anyone in this room is an asshole, it’s you.”“Why do you even care?” Mike asked bitterly.Sonny leaned back in his chair. It was obvious that Mike’s emotions were all over the place. One minute he was bitter and then the next minute he was angry. There was an undercurrent. ‘Oh,’ she said, relieved, ‘I have been working out and stuff.’ She didn’t mention how. ‘Can I come in?’ ‘Oh! Yes.’ Jennifer moved so Alan could enter. She smelled him as he passed. He had a man scent that sent shivers through her, and she could feel herself becoming wet again. She led him to the den of her home. ‘Would you like anything to drink?’ she asked. ‘No, thank you,’ he said, as he sat down. ‘ I just want to…talk to you. I haven’t seen you for a little over a month, and I didn’t hear. Now that war had come to their town, the councilors looked for someone to blame. In this case, each other. Even Grace, there as a moderating influence, made angry gestures at Ivan for his merchants trying to buy her girls away from her.Axel and Rayner shared a look before Rayner bellowed. “Shut up!” He needed no mana behind the shout to cause the occupants of the room, including Axel, to cover their ears.Once Rayner gained all their attention Axel spoke. “It looks like all of you have the same. I needed to vent and talk to someone, definitely not my parents.I found myself walking in the opposite direction of home. I was walking towards the home of my uncle Steve, daddy’s brother.Uncle Steve and daddy were opposites. While dad is strict and has an executive job, uncle Steve was laid back and worked from home. Uncle Steve always seemed to be with a new girlfriend every time I saw him, and he seemed to have a thing for younger women.I found myself at his front door and just as I was.