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“Hey, I will see you both in the office next week, okay? Promise.”
Both women hugged me before I departed with Mark. Once we were outside of the club, I felt like crying. Approaching my car, I found a rose stuck on the door handle.
Mark removed it, throwing it to the ground before looking around. “That wasn’t there before, I’ve been monitoring the perimeter. You’d better ride with me. I’ll have another guard drive your car home.”
Still defeated I just handed him the keys and walked over to his SUV. I’d finally started to make friends and now it just felt as if this evening had been anticlimactic as hell.
The second I’d walked into the house, I’d gone straight to check on the girls. I found Maggie in bed with Luna, who was scrolling on her phone.
“How was the movie?” I asked.
“Total kid's movie but it was nice to spend time with Grandmother,” Luna had offered.
My hand was already on the doorknob when I replied. “Goodnight, Luna.”
For a moment I leaned against her door before pushing away to take a hot shower. I followed that up by making a plate of leftover stewed chicken and rice before settling in the living room to wait for Ashton.
He needed to explain what I saw.
I needed him to tell me that he wasn’t having an affair with that woman because I needed to understand why it was bothering me so much that he might be.
Ashton and I needed to have a come to Jesus about what in the fuck this marriage meant because it had certainly evolved beyond the initial contract.
I just didn’t want to get my heart crushed.
Because I had fallen for him and I’d never meant to.
So, I sat and I waited.
He didn’t appear until well after midnight, reeking of another woman’s perfume.
Jade Nakamura’s perfume.
My heart had started to feel as though it were splintering.
ASHTON
It’d taken every single inch of control in my body not to blow Jade through the fucking window of her husband’s nightclub. Every ounce of willpower had had my body trembling with rage.
I’d wanted to take my gun out and kill her.
I wanted revenge for Abby’s murder. I wanted revenge for my nieces. The blood in my bones had cried out for vengeance.
In the end, I didn’t go through with it. I’d waited like a snake in the grass because killing her in the middle of a club wouldn’t be the smart thing. She had no idea that I was on to her and that I knew about her involvement with Abby.
She came on to me in the office, strongly admitting things as she draped her arms over my shoulders. “I’ve wanted you ever since I was a young foolish girl at boarding school.”
Playing along, the desire to break her neck swiftly and without remorse caused my fingertips to itch. “We’re both married, Jade.”
She hissed. “I know but I won’t be for much longer.”
Jade was a woman who knew how to keep your interest piqued. “Why’s that?”
She offered a shrug before moving away from me and sitting behind her desk. “Ken’s been in a coma for six months. Brain dead from a stroke he had months ago.
The look on my face told me that she’d helped her husband to an early grave. Of course, she wasn’t going to admit that to me.
“I’m sorry to hear that…”
