Terence took in Adrian's stoney face and Will's solemn nod of agreement and said, "The fucking bastard! I'll go retrieve him." He didn't like men who messed with women and he sure as fucking hell wasn't going to tolerate one of their own breaking the cardinal rule that you don't lay so much as a finger upon one of their women.
Vaisey snagged his arm as he passed and forced him onto a barstool. "Do not be rash for once in your life, Higgs," Agravaine said coldly. There was something very dark and controlled in the man's eyes that actually made Terence still and stay where he'd been directed.
"Agravaine is correct," Will said, "Yaxley must be dealt with but in a way that is not going to end with any of us making an extended stay on a rock in the North Sea."