Her husband was looking for the man who had very nearly led to Ariel being six feet under. That was pretty serious. Instead of just one half-hearted attempt to get him to stop, to let the police be the one to handle things, Ariel should have been putting in more effort into getting Tristan to stop the entire thing but she knew better.
But he suspected that his cousin was involved somehow. That changed the whole game. When it came to dealing with Zachariah, Ariel had been quick to learn that conventional approaches did not apply.
Her husband's fight with his cousin had been going on since long before Ariel had ever been in the picture. But the moment that she had become a part of Tristan's life. In Zachariah's eyes she had become fair game. That much had been made very clear when Tristan's cousin had sent a prostitute to pose as Tristan's mistress.
