It had taken some doing, more maneuvering than he would have expected, but Dennis Lee was able to get a man in to Wallace Henedy. Just to have a quick word with the fool who had ruined everything good about his own life. Men like Henedy deserved to rot. They also shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce, but Jenny had made a youthful mistake in that regard.
His message had been delivered. If Wallace so much as spoke a word to anyone about anything even remotely connected to any of Dennis Lee’s little businesses, then someone Wallace loved would pay the price. There had only been two people that applied to.
Dennis Lee would never bring himself to hurt his sweet little Jenny, but that boy of Wallace’s was fair game. He’d made that very clear. Wallace was a stupid fool, but he’d gotten the message.
Rumor had it Wallace had refused to even see his attorney now. He’d just quietly sit down, shut up and deal with the hand he’d dealt himself.
Dennis Lee smiled in satisfaction as he looked at the woman sleeping in the bed next to him.
He had been sleeping with Wallace Henedy’s wife for the last five years. It had started off as just a fling, but over time, Dennis Lee had come to really appreciate her for the wonderful woman she was.
Now he couldn’t imagine his life without her.
Once everything was finished with that fool husband of hers, he’d talk to her about moving her little self in with him. He had a second property just north of the city. He had raised his girls there after his wife had died when Martie had been twelve.
It was a good place for a man to retire. To sit back, like the king of the castle he was, and watch the grandchildren frolic in the yard in front of him.
Not that Dennis Lee would ever take his fingers out of his little pies. Those little pies were fun. And they had funded the life he had wanted since he’d been a small boy.
He ran a hand down Jenny’s smooth back, lightly fondling the flesh of her ass. Poor little sweetheart.
She didn’t deserve to be right in the middle of the limelight right now. Thanks to her idiot husband, that’s exactly where she was. She was still hiding from reporters because of Wallace.
Too bad the storm hadn’t killed Wallace as well as her nephew. Jenny would have recovered, eventually.
And then all this drama would have been avoided. Dennis Lee liked a good dose of drama now and then. Usually drama was preceded by sheer stupidity. But he didn’t like it that little Jenny was involved now. What Wallace had done made not a single lick of sense.
No wonder Jenny was so damned confused. Dennis Lee dropped a kiss on her shoulder. “It’ll be ok, honey. I promise.”