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A man who cheats and lies.
A selfish bastard and shitty dad.
The door shuts.
Tears are in Xander’s throat. The sound of them bubbling around the word, “Why?” He breaks. “Why?” The choked cry crashes past my ear, the sound cascading down my neck, slipping inside and causing a little crack down the centre of my heart. “Why, Baby? While I was falling in love with you, you were planning to fuck someone else!”
Oh. God.My heart twists. “I didn’t plan—God. I didn’tplanany of this. I just decided to do it and—” I implore him. “Please, it was before we fell in love, I swear, Baby. I swear—"
He rocks with me in his arms. “Why? You said I could keep you. You lied.”
“We weren’t together.”
“Why?”
God, he’s bordering on sobbing into my hair. The sound of him coming apart turns my blood to rapids in my veins. “I was here to cancel, I swear it. I swear!”
He stands with me in his arms, but suddenly tosses me to the mattress in a way that suggests he can’t bear to hold me any longer… I bounce a few times, the absence of his embrace a message that carves and bleeds.
‘No one believes a liar, Kaya.
—even when they are telling the truth.’
Dammit!
His nostrils flare. “Why are you naked then? Huh?” Gripping the back of his neck, he curses. “Fuck! How did that happen? When did you take your clothes off for them?”
And now that he stands before me, shaking and unsteady on his feet, I can see the tears streaming down his red face. There is nothing weak about this man, not even in this heart-breaking moment as he sobs. He’s more intimidating in his vulnerability, a careless utterance away from becoming totally rabid and wild.
Around his wrist, cling wrap is all bunched.Did he get another tattoo? My rabbit?“Baby, your wrist.”
“You’re mine!”
“I am.” My heart aches. “I swear it.” The pointless plea only triggers him to pace at the foot of the bed, burning a trail into the carpet with his angry gait.
“Tell me. I need to know why you’re naked. Tell me everything that happened. I need to know. Did you let that man fuck you? Did you let them pretend you chose them? When you really chose me?” He grips his forehead. “Get the images out of my head, Woman! You naked with the balaclava, showing your body. Tell me what fucking happe—”
“Okay, okay.”
He knows…
He knows about the sale.
How?
Shame and anguish war inside me. I slide to my knees, sitting on my heels, finding more strength in this position than on my arse. “I came in here. And he was in the corner. So, I told him I didn’t want to do this. That I don’t have what he wants—"
“Your virginity. You gave it to me.”
“Yes, Baby.” I soothe the panther inside him, the one ready to claw out. “I said I didn’t have my virginity. That I wanted to give him back his bitcoin and leave.”
“Why are you naked?”
“He said, ‘How do I know it’s you,’” I say the words, and Xander stops pacing midstride, staring ahead, too rigid to turn, too volatile to trust his muscles. I go on slowly, “He told me to take my clothes off.”
Xander shakes with restraint, vibrating with rage under the effort to stay still. “And you did.”
“I did.” I shuffle. “I didn’t want to. I just wanted it to be over. Then he asked me to do something I didn’t want to, so I said no and—”
