Page 29 of Fierce-Matt

He knew that now but didn’t know how his mother found out.

“Did you have her looked into?” This was news to him.

His mother looked up at the ceiling. “I’m pleading the fifth.”

“Mom! Seriously? You didn’t do that with Eve or Elias, did you?”

His mother sighed.

“What’s going on in here?”

Matt turned to see his father walk in and sit down.

“I just asked Mom if she had Eve and Elias looked into since she alluded to doing it with Macy.”

His father smirked. “Your mother never trusted your taste in women.”

“Holy shit, Mom. First you say I’m a little like Grandpa.”

“What did you do to piss your mother off?” his father asked, laughing.

“Nothing,” his mother said. “I was speaking the truth. Matt has always been cocky.”

“He has. You get that from my father.”

“You and Ben are too,” he argued.

“We are,” his father said. “I’m not denying that.”

“So you’re just like him then too.”

If he was going to get thrown under the bus, his father and brother would take up residency there with him and eat some asphalt.

“In that aspect, we are,” his father said. “There isn’t much more where you are like my father, so don’t worry about that. What else did your mother say to you today?”

“She said I used Macy.”

“I think you did,” his father said.

Who were these people?

It’s as if the last month he was getting all his bad and negative behaviors shoved under his nose after they’d been coated in pepper.

“Explain that.”

“You don’t like to be alone,” his father said. “You like to have fun. You take your job seriously. I always knew you would. You’re an excellent attorney and care about your clients. But in order to not burn out, you need a release. For you that came in the form of going out and cutting loose. You didn’t care who you were with to do it. Macy was a convenience for you when no one else was around.”

“I didn’t think so,” he said. “We dated for seven months.”

“In the beginning not seriously,” his mother said. “You even admitted it. She called you more than you called her.”

Which was how most of his relationships went.

Yet he made the first move with Anya.

She didn’t return it the way he would have hoped though.

“That’s true. But she grew on me.”