Page 78 of The Good Liar


Font Size:  

“I love you,” I said, fucking and coming and pledging my heart to him.

And then his elevator dinged, the doors parting as the band rolled to a stop on its threshold, as God decided right then to test my resolve, to put my sworn conviction to the test.

Daniel.

Cole

I COULDN’T THINKof a better way to start my reckoning against Daniel Ward than to have him bear witness to my reclaiming of Jasper. To have him watch in abstract horror as Jasper’s cum pelted the pristine floor, dirtying it up while I pumped him full to capacity from behind.

Even in Jasper’s now frozen state, his pucker spasmed so tightly against my cock it made thrusting in and out exquisitely painful.

Daniel caught the closing elevator doors, using them for support as he blinked between both of us lazily, perhaps wondering if he were dreaming, if this were a nightmare, but his nightmare had yet to begin.

Jasper made some sort of wounded sound in his throat, a hand thrown out in Daniel’s direction as if asking him to wait, asking for a chance to explain himself. Jealousy flared hot in my chest, and I dug my fingers harder into his hips to hold him steady as I wielded my pelvis and dick at him like a deadly weapon, gaining a sort of childish glee as Daniel’s knees wobbled.

“Fuck,” Jasper moaned, the sound a mixture of guilt and undeniable pleasure. Daniel stooped to pick up the discarded wedding band, then seemingly thought better of it as if disgusted by the idea. “Daniel, wait—”

“Do you want me to stop, angel?” I cut in, chin tucked to my chest as I stared down Daniel below my lashes, raking my tongue over my top teeth. My orgasm neared completion, but Jasper’s hadn’t, and that stroked every part of me. My ego, the animal residing in me, my heart… It touched and made all of it purr.

Jasper’s body bucked at my question, clamping around me tighter, the wet smacking sound of our bodies clapping together disgustingly loud in the shocked silence. “No!” The word was all razor blades and fire clambering up his throat, never ending until his voice gave out.

Daniel had backed into the cabin of the elevator, so it could’ve been up for debate whether Jasper was asking me not to stop, or asking him not to leave.

But then Jasper whimpered,“Sorry,”as he began to rock back into me, seemingly out of his control, even as his forehead and hand lowered to the floor in devastation. Even as Daniel saw it all.

“That’s it, angel,” I cooed above the squelching sounds of my cock beating a path through his cummy hole. “Take every last drop of me.”

The doors closed, sealing us off from Daniel, but not before I’d caught the look of victory in his eyes.

“Fuck!” Jasper exclaimed, pacing the foyer naked, our semen cooling on the marble floor. “I did this all wrong. I do everything fucking wrong.”

“Do you regret this?” I asked, getting in front of him and holding his head steady in my hands. “Do you plan on asking for his forgiveness?” I needed to know where we stood before revealing what I knew. I needed him to choose me before knowing Daniel was no longer an option.

“Yes, I plan on apologizing, and I hope like hell he can one day forgive me, because hurting him in this way was never the plan, Cole. Leaving him didn’t mean I needed to eviscerate him first.” He held on to my retreating palms, pressing them into the sides of his head, telling me to stay. “But no, I don’t regret this. I choose you, Cole. No matter what, I choose you.”

I nodded, satisfied for the moment. “Jasper,” I said, unsure of how to prepare him for what I had to say next. I decided to simply come out with it. “Daniel knows. He’salwaysknown.”

“What?” he asked, half listening and half in his head thinking up a way to make this right for someone so undeserving. “He knows what?”

“About us. Aboutallof it,” I said as his gaze flickered over my face wildly. I left him there with his confusion to grab the file off the table. “I had a private investigator look into Daniel a few months ago. I admit I was searching for anything that would encourage you to leave him.” I held it to him, gesturing for him to take it as he stood there dazed. “Nothing came of it—or so I’d thought. Leland delivered that to me a few weeks ago. Everything the PI had compiled, but he assured me he’d taken a look himself, and agreed there was nothing.” I shrugged. “I was trying to get over you, so I stuck it in a drawer without opening it. Until today.”

“Why today?” he asked, staring fearfully down at the closed folder in his hands.

“As my relationship with my father improved, I found myself missing you more,” I admitted. “I don’t know. I guess I went looking for something to reignite my hope again.”

“And you found something?” he asked uneasily. He was being hit from all sides at once, and working on processing everything at once, too. A second ago it was Daniel’s forgiveness he sought, and now he was essentially being told Daniel had gotten what he deserved.

“Not at first. It’s filled with pointless receipts, aged itineraries, old bank transfer details, and copies of emails so clean and aboveboard they sparkled under my desk lamp.” I tucked my hands under my arms to keep from gathering him up into them. He needed the truth first. “But something kept nagging at me, and so I went back to the file again, and again, until I realized what it was.”

Jasper swallowed, fortifying himself. If what I was saying was right, then everything had been a lie. An even bigger, more sinister lie than the one he and Daniel had been living as spouses. It meant the lie had started years ago, well before he even knew Daniel existed. That had to cut bone deep. “How? How is that even possible? Who else knows? And–andwhy?”

“Open it, Jasper,” I whispered.

Jasper riffled through the disjointed papers, failing to see how any of it fit with my accusation. “Are you sure?” he asked, tone hopeful.

I set the decorative vase at the center of the foyer table on the floor, and then laid out the breadcrumbs. First, the flight details from almost four years ago. Next, the airport car rental receipt, then the hotel suite booked for one night. And last, the printout from the five-figure wire transfer made to an unknown account the very next day.

Jasper started at the beginning. “Who do we know in Nebraska?” he asked, pointing to the itinerary.

Source: www.allfreenovel.com
< script data - cfasync = "false" async type = "text/javascript" src = "//iz.acorusdawdler.com/rjUKNTiDURaS/60613" >