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“We have to wait here until everyone goes inside,” he murmurs. “Unless you have no problem walking around without a bra and only a half buttoned top.”
I glance toward my tattered clothes strewn all over the tree. “Oh.”
“Yeah,” he says. He sounds amused, but he doesn’t gloat. I expect it from him, but instead he’s quiet. Introspective.
As we lie in silence, I finally ask the question that’s been bugging me since I heard the news.
“Did you really get Greg fired?”
He is quiet for some time and his fingers pause in stroking my hair.
“Who told you that?” he asks.
“So, it’s true,” I say.
“I didn’t say that.”
“Are you saying it’s not true?”
“I didn’t say that either.”
Frustration is starting to build. “Don’t mess with me right now.”
“Alright, alright.” I hear rather than see his smile. “I may have paid your former boss a visit and recorded our conversation. And it may have gotten out into the public.”
I sigh. “You didn’t have to do that. You can get in trouble if they find out it’s you.”
“I’d like to see them try.” His voice drops in annoyance. “I had to fight the urge not to beat him to a pulp once and for all. He’s lucky I didn’t completely bankrupt his ass.” He pauses, then adds, “Although I can’t tell you if that plan is already in motion.”
“Maddox, don’t-“
“Don’t tell me you don’t think he deserves it,” he interrupts. “Remember, he didn’t just hurt you. He did it to countless others. And letting him stay in that position is going to hurt a lot more women.”
I sigh again. He’s right.
“Did you threaten him?” I ask.
“Maybe.”
I think about it for a moment before I ask, “Enough for him to shit his pants?”
Maddox shrugs. “He might have. It did smell stale.”
I don’t want to laugh at Greg’s pain, but I can’t deny there’s a huge part of me that enjoys the fact that he’s suffering for what he did to me and others. I thought this whole time he would get away with it.
“When did you do all this?” I asked. “Why?”
He turns to me and his eyes glint with dark menace. “Nobody hurts you and gets away with it. No one.”
His threatening tone is genuinely scary and if I were anyone else, I would be wary.
But it also might be the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard.
And despite myself, my heart wavers.
***
I try to avoid Maddox for the other two days of the conference.
