When Ethan answered, he was staring at the screen, a dead stare on his face, and nothing in his eyes.
Play time was on, and it wasRAREanyone of them could make their wife sweat. She tended to be the master of that little technique. Ask Callen every time he bought a building for her.
“Show me the dog.”
She tried again.
“Ethan, he’s a good dog.”
He didn’t even blink.
Jesus.
Someone had his‘I hate doggos’undies on today, and now, it was her problem. She really liked this dog.
Yeah, she said she was going to give him to Jonathan Miller’s family, if they wanted him, but she had hope they didn’t. They didn’t seem to want Jonathan Miller, since he was homeless and alone in the world.
She flipped the camera, to show the view, and he got a look at the dog.
“Jesus. H. Christ. That’s not a small dog, Elizabeth. That’s a huge-ass horse. What the hell?” he asked.
She sighed.
“I’ll call animal control,” she said, not even fighting. There was no point. The men let her pretty much do whatever she wanted, but this was a hard line for Ethan. “He can go to the pound. I’m sure he’ll get adopted.”
When he heard it, there was something in her tone he didn’t like, and he needed to figure it out.
It was defeat, and as someone who lived in that hellhole, a lot of his life, he knew it was the first step to someone’s demise.
That his wife sounded so sad…
He put that there.
“Can I have a few to talk to my wife?” he asked, knowing everyone heard him.
Immediately, they began getting out.
“Good luck,” Gene said, kissing her on the forehead. “I’m rooting for you and Shadow, honey,” he said.
Yeah, it didn’t matter.
Elizabeth knew there was literally one thing that Ethan would fight her on every step of the way, and dogs were it.
For some reason.
When the doors closed, he was curious.
“It’s not like you to not fight a little. What’s up?” he asked. “You rolled right over on this one. You don’t like the dog?”
She shrugged.
“It doesn’t matter. You’ve been through enough. I’m not going to make it more difficult for you now. He can go. It’s fine. I have dogs. You need this. I don’t.”
Oh, Jesus.
It was never fine when the woman said it was. In fact, it was ready to blow up when a wife said that.
And Ethan didn’t like that.
