Chapter 31

I took a deep breath and let it out. Then I moved in and joined their dance.

“While you were threatening us, I got a call from Felicity telling me somebody had come into the coffee shop and trashed the place, and hurt two of our teenage employees. Since you were the one threatening us, we thought you’d sent them.”

Tommy glared at me as if he were about to punch me. I stared back at him.

“What?” he bellowed. “I didn’t trash your place! I didn’t hurt any teenagers!”

“You threatened us. Publicly. Right here.” I shrugged. I looked around at the spellbound faces staring at us. “How many of you were here last night?”

A spattering of hands went up, mostly women’s hands.

“Did he threaten me and my business?”

Everyone with a hand in the air and some whose hands were in their laps or on the table nodded.

I turned back to Tommy.

“Witnesses.” I gestured toward the hands in the air.

“You bastard.” Tommy moved in on me.

Before I could do or say anything, Guy stepped in front of him.