“Come to theCandelabra.I can keep you safe here.”
You promise?
“I need you. Now.”
Fuck, baby. I’ll try…I’ll be there soon.
Every word made me want to gouge out my eyeballs.
There were so many layers to my anger. But jealousy raged wilder and hotter than any other.
Some deep part of my logical brain registers that I have no right to be mad.Iwas the one who initiated the casual nature of our relationship.Iwas the one who wanted her to leave at the end of all this and have a normal life.
But with ClaudiofuckingLazzaro? The guy she begged me to save her from?
One text and she was already willing to defy our agreement, to escape my home and fuck him instead.
“I was gone for less than four goddamn hours,” I spit out.
“He manhandled me!”
“If we’re pointing fingers,” Teo butts in. “She kicked me quite a bit too.”
She turns her rage at him. “You jumped me out of nowhere! What did you expect?”
“Teo,” I say through my teeth. “Leave us.”
My most trusted friend studies me closely for a moment before silently making his exit.
Cas bristles in the eerie silence that follows.
She was going to him. She let me touch her last night, but she was going tohim.
“I’m not going to apologize,” she states stubbornly. “I didn’t break our agreement.”
“You didn’t have the opportunity to.”
“Because you had Teo drag me back to thisprison!”
Her words enrage me so fiercely that I can barely see beyond the red in my vision.
“Because you were running back tohimthe second my back was turned.”
Every defiant expression of her body flickers out like a candle.
“What?” she whispers, suddenly looking horrified.
“You think I was going to stand by and let you jeopardize everything I’ve done because you were that desperate to fuck him again?”
Her eyes bulge. “You’ve been tracking my phone.”
“We’ve been trackinghis.”
“Rocco…”
“Not another word out of your damn mouth, Cassandra.”
I want to hit something. I want to feel something be crushed beneath my fists.
