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Rage clouds my vision. For hours, I try to calm myself down, but images of him with someone else wreck my composure. The betrayal pricks my heart with hundreds of tiny needles.
I storm inside the security room. Daniel stands, visibly concerned.
“Bring me to my husband.”
“He’s busy.”
“If you don’t, I will go to him myself.”
“That is not a good idea.” Daniel takes his phone from his pocket, but an adrenaline rush comes over me, and I snatch it from him and stomp on it.
“Don’t you dare. Now take me to Kieran.”
My husband is a cheating asshole. Did he think he can just leave me while he lives his best life? Never. I will never accept that. He’s bound to share my misery.
I pin Daniel with a glare, and he dips his head in acquiescence. Sitting in the car, my anger only intensifies with every mile we travel. When we reach the location, a glass building rises from the ground, stretching thousands of square feet, but I can’t see inside. The windows must be tinted.
Without waiting for Daniel, I shove the door open and stride right to the door. He gets his thumb and retina scanned, and the door opens into a hallway with gray walls and polished floors. Daniel slides his card over the elevator panel and when it stops on the first floor, my legs fill with lead. He points at the door and says he’ll wait downstairs.
My hand trembles as I open the door, my heart butchered in my chest at possibly finding him with someone else. The thought of him fucking someone else. That chest that my back leaned into, that body who at night was my cocoon now might be thrusting into another woman.
So many emotions running amok and the fog of my thoughts clears at once when his head snaps up. I feel a relief so strong it unbalances me.
“Aurora?” He looks at me with a furrowed brow, already in a half-up position.
Now that I see I had nothing to worry about, I’m pissed at his ability to keep his distance from me.
Well, fuck him.
I hurry back into the elevator with Kieran hot on my heels, calling my name. My finger bends, pressing the button, and the door slides shut right in his tightened-up-with-frustration face.
With Daniel behind me, I stride toward the car. “Drive me back.” He obeys.
Back home, I barricade myself inside my room and call my uncle.
“Please, I can’t take this any longer.”
“What did he do?”
I am sure he expects me to tell him despicable things. Instead, I say the truth. “He’s dangerous to my heart. I’m afraid of losing myself to him.”
The heart of that girl who loved him for years, even the heart of the woman who fights her feelings daily for him is at risk.
“And there is someone else, my best friend. I’m not leaving without her.”
“I cannot do that.”
“Then I’ll find another way.”
“We can come for her afterward,” Hayden tries, but I remain resolute.
“No.”
We spend the next few minutes coming up with a plan. The next time Chiara visits me, he’ll come get us. It doesn’t matter if it takes months. I will be free of Kieran, of these chains shackling me to him, to this house I’m starting to think of as home.
I itch to call Chiara and tell her. On my way to the kitchen, Kieran storms inside the house, coming toward me.
“We need to talk.”
