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The others try, all of us pleading and interrupting the meeting.
She continues to sit there without even glancing at us, as if we are below her.
Reign acts as if she has forgotten we exist when she is the center of our world, and I can’t even blame her. We broke her heart and her trust. We knew the consequences of our choice, and I can already see her running away from us, but this time when she leaves, she will take all our hearts.
“Are we done?” she asks, completely ignoring us. Her tone is hard and cold.
“Yes,” he responds, and she stands without even looking at us. If I let her walk out that door, we are done forever. I will never see her again.
I’ll lose her.
“Reign,” I yell, ignoring the whispers and looks. I push away from the table and stand. Cillian catches me around the waist, and security holds us back as we try to go after her. “Baby, look at me! I’m sorry. Look at me! Please fucking look at me,” I scream. “I love you!”
“Reign!”
She doesn’t look back once.
FIFTY-THREE
Scrambling past the men, I race after Reign. She’s facing forward in the elevator as the doors shut.
“Reign! Wait!”
I feel her eyes on me as she reaches over and presses a button, and I watch as the doors shut in my face. I slam into them before turning, looking for the stairs. We can’t let her get away.
We can’t.
“Give her some space,” Raff orders, but his voice shakes.
“Space? Not a fucking chance. You know her. She will—”
“Gentlemen, please join us.”
I look around Raff to see the board. Raff’s expression is hard and he grips my arm, dragging me back into the room, but I feel the tremor in his muscles. He isn’t as unaffected as he seems.
God, I rub my chest as I slump into my chair. My gaze goes to her empty seat and I remember the agony in her eyes as she looked at us with disbelief and then heartbreak. It killed me. I wanted to rip my chest open and give her anything just to gain a moment to explain.
How did we get to this from the bliss of this morning?
“Well, from what we just saw, it confirms a few rumors. You have crossed the line. A relationship is prohibited with a client. You are all fired,” Will states.
“Do you think we care?” Dal snaps. “How could you do that to her—”
“I thought she knew.”
“You made us sign a contract that prevented us from telling her about the stalker,” Cillian hisses. “We never reported to you about her life, but we couldn’t tell her the full truth, and now she’s alone with a stalker—”
“We’ll handle that. It’s no longer your concern.” The doors open. “Security will escort you out.”
Thrusting my chair back, I push past the muscle and hurry to the elevator, my brothers with me. As we descend, I count down the seconds I’m away from her.
“What a fucking mess,” Raff says. “We’ll sit her down and explain—”
“You think she’ll listen?” Cillian snaps. “In her mind, we betrayed her just like every other person and she isn’t wrong. We lied to her. We never told her the full truth. We should have when the stalker—”
“We had no choice,” Raff reminds him.
“Don’t use that as an excuse to make yourself feel better. We broke her trust and her heart, and Reign Harrow doesn’t forgive or forget. You know that better than anyone. We’ve lost her, and I will never forgive myself or you.”
