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It took minutes before I could speak, heat flushing my cheeks as Mac stood up, wiping his face on his hand. He was covered in me.
‘Wow, that was...’
I saw the tenting in his trousers and swallowed hard. ‘I need to go. Sorry. But thank you. We can’t do this again.’
‘Katie,’ he said, reaching out and taking my fingers. I righted my underwear as I pulled away, looking around as relief swamped me. There was no-one else there.
‘I can’t, Mac. Just leave it.’
With my cheeks burning and tears stinging my eyes, I made for the ladies.
I’d cheated not once, but twice. And although I’d seen Tommy with someone else, it didn’t leave me feeling any better.
It wasn’t just a betrayal to my relationship, but to my family. Maeve was my friend, my sister-in-law, and Mac was her brother.
I needed an escape.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
MAC
Birds chirped outside my window as the sun rose in the sky. I should have been up hours ago, but the way Katie had looked at me the night before had ground me to a halt. I’d finally had her in my hands, as me, not a masked stranger, and she’d rejected me.
There couldn’t be a happy ending for us. I couldn’t stay her masked paramour forever, and she didn’t want me.
My phone vibrated against the bedside table and I launched it on the end of the bed, where it could buzz quietly.
It didn’t let up.
With a groan, I sat up and looked at the screen, seeing multiple missed calls from my brothers.
Never good news.
I answered Ewen’s call to a torrent of curse words.
‘Calm down. What’s going on?’ His launch was a success. He should be on cloud nine.
‘One of my performers is dead.’
‘What? How?’
‘They found Eloise with her throat cut in the alley behind the club.’
‘Fuck. Found by who?’
‘The public. The police are all over it.’
Fuck. The last thing we needed sniffing around was police involvement. ‘You have CCTV out there, right?’
‘It was wiped. Someone who knows what they are doing is involved. Someone’s covering it.’
‘I’ll be there ASAP. Getting dressed now.’
I hung up the phone and threw on some clothes, grabbing my keys and taking the roads into the city at speed until I neared the club. Police tape and vehicles surrounded the club, while journalists and photographers gathered across the street.
Parking up nearby, I ducked under the police tape, letting them know I was part of club security.
Ewen was pacing in the empty nightclub that formed the lower part of the building, his face pale as he met my eyes.
