His Love

Chapter 30

"So Hunter how is the company going?" Ann asked as she ate her salad.

"Pretty good. We've been able to double everything since I've taken over," I saw Hunter glance over at his dad. I could tell he was about to just burst out with his own opinions.

"Well that's a surprise considering that you're having sex with your PA's" Hunter had to bite his tongue to not burst out curse words. He made eye contact with me to which I gave him a look telling him to not do it. I knew exactly what he wanted to do though.

"Honey-"

"No! He believes he is better than me just because he thinks he has his life together?! A woman and child."

"Maybe I think that because it is true. Am I not allowed to have my life together I am old enough for all of this." Hunter said.

"Look at how full of himself he is now-"

"You did the same thing!" Ann yelled causing everyone else to get quiet. "I was pregnant with Hunter at 24. Your father was still getting you ready to take over the business and you thought you were the luckiest man alive. Now here you are 25 years later upset about your son following your footsteps." No one said anything past that, all that could be heard was the sound of the knives and forks hitting the plates.

When dessert finally came, I had decided to start talking. The silence was too much for me.

"So Matthew," he looked up from his plate to me. "How is college?"

"It's great especially all the parties," Ann looked over at him but she gave a face that was 'i'm not surprised'.

"Hopefully you're not just partying?" I laughed and fed Eli a tiny bite of the brownie.

"Of course not. I study once a week." He said proudly.

"None of my sons know what to spend their time doing. One is knocking up a homeless woman and the other is partying the night away." Hunter's dad said annoyed. All of us turned to him not expecting to hear from him for the rest of the night after his words with Ann.

"Alright," Ann set her things down and stood up. Her chair scraping against the floor. "you and I need to go upstairs to have a little talk. I am so sorry for all of you." She grabbed his wrist and he stood up without another word. No one said anything until we heard the door upstairs shut.

"How long has that been going on?" Hunter asked Mathew who was scraping his plate for the rest of the dessert.

"A few months now."

"Months? Why didn't you call me?"

"I meant too but I got held up with school work. I hardly see them as much anyways."

"You could've at least texted. Something is up."

"I don't know."

"Did something happen?" I asked.

"Not that I know of," Matthew said and wiped his mouth. Before Hunter could say something we heard a loud crash upstairs. Hunter was the first to stand up and rush upstairs. Mathew was right behind him. I took a second not to know if I should just leave Eli here.

I saw the maid come out of the kitchen doors and motioned to Eli. She nodded and I quickly went upstairs.

When I got there Matthew was holding Ann and standing outside of the room and I heard Hunter in the room. As I got closer I could see Hunter punching his dad.

It was no use or a good idea to step in and try to stop it from happening.

"What happened?" I asked as I got closer to Ann and Matthew. Ann had a forming bruise on her cheek and red marks on his arms. No one had to say anything I already knew.

I turned to Hunter who was standing up from knocking his father on the floor. His father groaned and started to sit up.

It seemed like Hunter was ready to go for a round 2 or something.

"Hunter," he looked at me. I just shook my head and he came over to me. I held his slightly bruised and bloody hands in mine and tried to calm him down.

Ann had started crying in Matthew's arms. Hunter's dad was laying against the bed trying to catch his breath.

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