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Although I’d prefer not to have my wife’s indiscretions aired in front of Emilio, I shared everything with Ant.
I glanced over my shoulder to the backseat. “We are the only three people who will know about this conversation.”
Emilio nodded once. “Understood, Boss.”
I tapped the audio button and held the phone. The voices were muffled.
“The phone is probably in her purse,” Ant said.
“Shh!The phone is in her pocket. The camera is covered.” I closed my eyes and focused on the sounds to glean a word or two.
I couldn’t understand the words, only one distinctively lower voice, and the other had to be Allegra.
“Tim should be with her. Where the fuck is he?” If he was with her, and helping her with her clandestine encounters, he was dead. “I want tracking on his phone,” I said to Emilio. “Fuck. I want tracking on anyone who associates with Allegra. I don’t give a fuck if all they do is cut her hair. I want to know who she is with every fucking minute of the day. She’s never alone again.”
GPS showed her in the hotel. Would she go to a room with him? I clenched my teeth. Ant weaved through traffic. The only sound in the vehicle was the continued muffled conversation between moments of silence.
The camera picked up an image. Allegra’s voice was clear.
“I miss you. I don’t know how I’d live without you.”
Murderous thoughts pricked at my conscience. I watched the image. A split-second view of her face revealed tears on her cheek. The phone twisted. She was in his fucking arms. The camera angle held on the leather jacket of a dead man.
“I love you, Ally.”His words punched me in the gut. Ant’s gaze snapped at me.
“Find him.” I wanted his fucking hands for touching my wife.
“I hate this. I hate that we have to hide.”
Did she expect to share her marital bed with her lover? My nostrils flared. Nothing was going to temper my anger.
“I’m always going to take care of you.”
The conversation continued in the silence of the vehicle. And then Allegra sent a final text. Her face stared into the screen, her eyes focused on the messages, the evidence of her betrayal.
The phone twisted and slipped into her back pocket.
Fighting my instinct to react with violence, I clung to fragments of truth that would provide Allegra with an explanation, a reason why she’d hide a man she intimately embraced.
Another man’s lips hadn’t touched hers, at least not this time. Another flare of heat burned in my gut. Not that I’d seen. Perhaps she hadn’t kissed him because they were in public. But his hands had been on her body, his words were whispered into her ear. She was mine.
The final few minutes to the hotel heightened the tension coiling in my gut. Muscles burned with the need to unleash fury. Blood pumped hard and rough through my veins.
Ant pulled up to the front of the hotel. “Circle the block. He could still be here. Leather jacket, tattoos. Emilio, stay with Ant.”
I slid out of the vehicle. Emilio hurried around the front of the SUV and sat in the passenger front seat. As soon as the door closed, Ant sped off. I walked with purpose to the elevators.
The phone was still in her back pocket, but I couldn’t hear any voices. I stepped into the elevator and ascended to the penthouse suite.
The doors opened.
“About fucking time,” Orlando hollered. “The pizza is cold.” He stepped from the balcony and approached the elevators. “Oh, hey. I thought you were Ally. Are you hungry? There’s pizza.”
I roared, charged him, wrapped my hands around his neck, and slammed him against the wall. “Where the fuck is she?”
Orlando clawed at my arm. “Shopping,” he said on a gasp. “In the boutique.”
“Who is she with?” Every nerve in my body sizzled with aggression. A flush of heat surged through me. Muscles in my arms contracted. My fingers tightened around his neck, squeezing.
