Pierre nods. “Yeah, I get the picture,” he answers back as he steps forward, “nice little fantasy you have here, but Hayley’s a monogamous woman, Mr. Caulfield. She’s mine, not yours. Which makes f*****g you out of the question.”
Ellery looks a bit stunned; I don’t think he expected this. “Yes, I suspect so.”
“Truth is, Hayley was not free to respond to your offer in the first place, and she won’t be free in the future. I’d be grateful if you’d leave her alone—something she should have taken care of herself, but failed to do.”
Ellery raises his eyebrows, slightly mocking him with his expression. “Then I guess you have a few things to work out between you.” No one misses the subtle ridicule as he rubs in the fact of my infidelity like rubbing salt in an open wound. But Pierre doesn’t fl
