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“Why do you suppose he does that?” I asked, having my own thoughts but trying to keep an open mind until I saw him.
“Loneliness maybe? I don’t know. All the Raven men are anti-commitment though. So, Hunter isn’t an outlier in that. What makes him different is the number of women. I’m not sure a night goes by that he doesn’t have a woman in his bed.”
That was a lot of women. I hoped he used protection.
“Your husband is the outlier then.”
Sara turned to look at Chase, who winked at her while on his call. “He used to be like them. I’m lucky he changed.”
“He’s lucky to have found a woman to show him love.”
She grinned. “He is, isn’t he?”
Chase put the phone down and came around the desk. “I’ve got maintenance setting up an unused office on the other side of this floor.” He put his arm around Sara. “Honey, I need to take care of this, but if you’d like to wait, I’ll be back to take care of that thing for you.”
“I’ll order us lunch,” she said. “You’ll need the energy.”
He bit his lip and a blush came to his cheeks. It was sweet even though I felt like a voyeur. At the same time, love and sex wasn’t a part of my life and didn’t seem like it would ever be. So I might as well live it vicariously through others.
He turned to me. “Let me take you to the room. My brothers will meet us there.”
Ah, an intervention. As a therapist, it wasn’t out of the realm of my duties to help a family do an intervention. But in the end, whether or not I counseled Hunter would be up to him.
3
Hunter
Friday
It was clear that someone on the inside of Raven Industries was behind the recent rash of thefts as nothing on the surveillance showed anything out of the ordinary. Whoever it was, they knew how to get past the cameras, and that meant I’d need to ask Ash for help. He ran the clubs, but his passion had been technology. He was a geek through and through. He would be the best one to figure out how our thief was getting past our security. I had some tech geeks on my team, but it was better to keep our vulnerabilities to ourselves if our problem was someone associated with Raven Industries.
As if he knew I was thinking about him, Ash poked his head through my doorway. “Chase has called a meeting.”
“Fuck, again?”
He shrugged. “Lot’s going on I guess.”
“Why don’t we stay here and you can tell me how someone is getting past our surveillance and security systems? Or better yet, who on the Raven payroll has that type of knowledge?”
Ash cocked his head. “You think it’s someone who works for us?”
“How else do they know how to get inside Raven properties without being seen?”
Ash thought for a minute. “Good point. I can look at it later. Right now, Chase is waiting.”
“Tell him I went home. Taking one of my wellness days.”
Ash laughed. “Yeah, like he’d believe that.”
Fuck. I closed my laptop and followed Ash out. I missed the days when I could do my work and never see Chase or any of my brothers. I’m not sure why I was hanging around. I had no interest in fulfilling my father’s wishes that I marry and have kids just so I could get my money. I enjoyed my work, but not the bureaucracy. And yet here I was, following my brother to yet another meeting.
Ash passed the normal conference room and instead went to a room that had been vacant since a reorganization Chase had done a few months back. Kade was leaning against the wall outside the room doing something on his phone. He looked up with a smirk that had my gut go on alert. Something was up.
“In here,” Ash said motioning to the doorway.
I looked at him, trying to figure out what was going on. I looked in the room and saw Chase sitting on the edge of a desk talking to someone. He looked up and motioned me in.
I stepped into the room and saw a woman sitting in a chair arranged with several other chairs to the left of the desk. She was stunning in a schoolmarm or librarian sort of way. She had not quite red, not quite brown hair that must have been long as it was pulled back into a plain bun. Her glasses were rectangular with a slight upturn on the outer edges giving them a cat-eye appearance. Her dress was conservative; plain, pale pink blouse and dark pencil skirt. She was sitting, so it was hard to tell what her body was like, but she had nice calves, which bode well for the rest of her.
