Fighting the Mafia (Completed)

Chapter 7

Two months go by.

I've been boxing with Zane regularly. It seems to help with my anger. It's like every punch is hitting the man that hurt me all of those years ago. Almost, as if every calculated punch lands on his face and I'm able to defend myself. It feels really good.

I run up the stairs to find Theo waiting on me. Shit I'm running late. Theo looks at me shaking his head, "you better hurry that fine ass upstairs and take a shower. I'll leave you."

I smirk as I'm running upstairs, "you wouldn't dare."

Finally walking down from my shower. I grab my purse and head towards the front door. He opens the car door for me and walks around the front and gets in, "you're lucky. If you took another minute, I was going to come into that shower and get you, or help." He raises his eyebrows and smirks.

I tilt my head back and laugh, "you wish."

He cocks his eyebrows, "you have no idea." Fuck... I feel my cheeks blush and the heat rise between my legs. No Haley, you are married. You can only think about Kyle touching you.

Theo and I have actually been getting a long really well the past two months. He's been taking me to therapy every week. When I come out I'm a little emotional and he always rubs my hand on the way home. We sit in silence, but there is always something nice about us sitting in silence with each other. There's no awkwardness.

"Theo?" I question him before I go to ask. I'm a little nervous for what I'm about to ask him.

"I'm listening." He says with zero emotion. I love how he can go from flirty to heartless in a second. I actually don't love it...I was being sarcastic.

"I want to go back to work." I say more demanding than asking.

"No." He says quickly, not evening giving time to think about it.

I look at him completely annoyed. "Look, we are finally acting civilized towards each other. Do you really want to disturb the peace? Because I will be a total pain the ass again. For everyone's sake, you do not want that."

Hoping I would back down from our argument. "I'm a business man, convince me." He says.

I purse my lips to the side, "you want me to give you a presentation?"

His smirk grows wide, "or a demonstration on how you would persuade me, would suffice."

My eyes widen, "I'm not giving you a blowjob or having sex with you. You can erase that from your mind. I think me being annoying should be persuasion enough. Plus, I get enjoyment out of working, the feeling of making a difference and being valued."

He sighs, "fine, I have a small company that needs some help marketing wise. I just purchased a construction company and it needs help getting off the ground. But, Haley don't fucking cross me. I'm extending the olive branch here, don't make me regret giving you some leniency."

I nod and we pull up to Nat's office.

Theo opens the office door and Nat greets us. "Good morning you two! How are you?"

Theo grabs Nat into his big arms and laughs, "I'm well Nat, how are things with Zane?"

My eyes widen, this is Zane's girlfriend. I follow into her office baffled. I sit down and just stare at her.

She takes notice of my awkwardness, "Haley, if you're wondering if Zane talks to me about you, then yes, he does. If you're wondering if I talk to Zane about you, yes I do. You are apart of our family. Now, Zane and I do not and I mean absolutely do not talk about your therapy sessions. He knows that you see me once a week, but he has no idea what we talk about, as does Theo."