Page 14 of The Prey (The Hillers of Barratt County #6)

Jason waited until the day before he had to appear in court on the Lawrence case before he decided how he was going to handle it.

He had just had other priorities. It was the biggest defense case on his caseload now, but he frankly didn’t give a fuck about it.

Nothing in Value mattered to him now. Not that it ever had.

He opened the folder again, turning pages without really reading them. Giavonna’s name jumped out at him. That woman—he’d thought he was over her.

Apparently not. He’d spent the better part of the past two days driving around, looking for her.

He’d even headed toward the Hiller Ranch once before he stopped himself.

He’d spent two nights dreaming about her, too.

The woman had fascinated him when they’d worked together before.

Both because she was fucking hot, and because the connections she had to the legal world in Texas, the connections her rich ass parents had—they would have helped him meet his goals far quicker than anyone else he had ever met.

That woman had been his ideal.

And she’d been right there in front of him for the damned taking. His.

If he hadn’t gotten so damned impatient, things would have been different. He would have had her in his fucking bed, for one thing. For another, she would have opened doors for him in Barratt County.

Damn it, he still wanted her. He was a man who liked to conquer, and he knew that.

Giavonna.

For some reason, he’d expected her not to be working with Hanan anymore, the way the two of them had argued constantly.

He’d thought she’d have moseyed on over to B-3 to work with that friend of hers—that asshole Mac Barratt’s sister.

B-3 would have meant a shit ton more money than what she was doing now ever could.

Powell Barratt and Giavonna had been friends since law school, he’d heard.

Just another way in to B-3 for Jason that hadn’t actually materialized.

He hated Hanan and his pal Barratt. So fucking much. They had fucked up everything. All of his plans. All of them. Just because they could.

Well, he would make that asshole pay now, wouldn’t he? It was just a matter of time.

He wasn’t too afraid of the judge. Judges like that were a dime a dozen.

But Hudson and Giavonna together— they could turn into a real problem. One he would have to do something about. Before she started running her mouth to the wrong people. And before Hanan ruined everything once again.