Samson actually smiled, down at her as he stroked her hair back from her ear and tried to sooth her with a little situational humor, "I made lots of money on this, that's what's going on."
She took it the other way in her stress and distress, and shouted hurt up into his face, "How could you?! What kind of a bastard are you that you profit from my family's misfortune!"
Suddenly Samson found himself frowning and hurt, "Persephone, we're married. This is the only family I have ever had. I'd never do anything to hurt our family. Besides, I'm trying to tell you that I finally got the draw on my back pay and my seized assets were released. They cleared the banks last night just before dinner. When I went back to work after dinner, I placed some buy orders for this morning automatically
