as to why Jordon had brought the two men to the house.
“What’s going on, Jordon?”
“Just having a cup of coffee with our newest hands, Ethan. Since we haven’t had the time to get to know them, I thought we could all have a chat over coffee.”
“What’s your name, boy?” Adam growled at the taller man sitting beside him.
“Sean, sir…Sean Beaumont,” he said quietly.
“Beaumont! You’re Wayne’s son, aren’t you? I thought you looked familiar,” Ethan said.
“And you, son, you got a name?” Jordan asked the other man.
“John…uh, John Smith.” The shorter of the two men looked to his friend as if he expected him to contradict him. Sean just looked away, and Jordon could tell he was visibly angry at the other man.
“So John, Sean, which one of you wants to tell us how Jasper got onto our land without anyone seeing him?” The question cut right to the chase and gave the two men no quarter. He wanted answers, and he wanted them now.
John swallowed loudly, fidgeting in his seat as he looked from one brother to the next. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, Mr. Kinsey,” he said, noticeably shaken.
“Damn it, Jason,” his friend said loudly. “Tell them the truth, or I will.”
“Shut your fucking mouth, Sean. They can’t prove anything,” John, or Jason, it seemed, whispered angrily.
“Fuck, you are such an idiot, Jason. Jasper fed you a line of crap, and now he’s landed you in some real deep shit. Start talking, now!” Sean slammed his hand on the table making Amy jump.
“Piss off, Sean,” was all Jason said.
Jordon looked to Sean, hoping that he would tell them what the hell was going on
Sighing, Sean said, “John here”—pointing to his friend—“is my moron of a cousin, Jason. Apparently, Jasper paid him to let him in through the gates over on the west pasture, told him that he wanted to surprise his old friends and his girlfriend so he couldn’t come through the front gate.”
Jason’s head hung down as Sean continued, “He didn’t know that Jasper had just gotten out of jail. Jasper told him he’d been overseas for a time.”
* * * *
Amy could tell by the way that Jason shifted uncomfortably in his seat that he knew how much shit he was in. She couldn’t blame him, though. Jasper had a way of making people believe that he was the nicest guy on the planet and he only wanted to make his woman happy.
Quietly, she stood and moved to the other side of the kitchen. She needed to separate herself from all the testosterone that was floating around. She saw Sean glance at her and then quickly look away as if he was ashamed of what his cousin had done. Her story wasn’t a secret in Kinsey. Jasper was the son of the mayor, and she’d sent him to jail for a while, so that was big news at the time.
“Jason,” Adam said, “we need you to be completely honest with us, young man. What you did could have had really bad consequences if Amy would have been in the house alone. Jasper lied to you, we understand that, but allowing any stranger on our property without letting us know is not something that we can let slide.”
Jason lifted his head. Placing his hands flat on the table in front of him, he said, “I’m sorry, sir. I thought I was helping to surprise you and Miss Amy. I never would have let him through if I had any idea of what he’d do. I’ll pack up my things and leave right away. And don’t blame Sean for any of this mess. He didn’t know anything about it until I told him about it, and he wanted me to tell you right away.”
Adam reached over and smacked the boy on the back. “Well, don’t go packing yet, young man. I said we wouldn’t let it slide. I didn’t say we were going to fire you.”
Jordon set cups of coffee in front of the two men and then sat down across the table from them.
“Where did you meet Jasper, Jason?” he asked.
“I was at the Silvers the other night, and him and a few of his friends came in and
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