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Things would be okay.
Well, that I didn’t know because there was this guy standing in front of me. A guy I was meant to marry less than two months ago, and as it turned out, I had no idea who the hell he was.
I eased back into the seat. “Chad, if you need to talk, we can talk,” I said, speaking slowly and softly despite the way my racing heart was demanding we move quickly to escape the danger. “But, just sit down and put the gun away.”
Silently, he slipped into the booth across from me, gun resting on the tabletop instead of pointed at my head.
Progress.
“I’m sorr—”
“No, you’re not,” he snapped, clenching his jaw tightly. “You’re just out here, living up life like nothing happened. Like you didn’t completely humiliate me at our fuckingwedding.”
My body jerked at the tone of his anger, my eyes drawn to the way he curled his fingers a little tighter around the gun.
I’d caused this.
I’d made him react this way.
And it was going to be my fault if people got hurt.
“I’m really sorry,” I said, though it came out barely above a whisper, fear clogging my throat and making it hard to breathe, let alone speak. “Maybe we could get out of here, go somewhere. Talk about it. These people don’t need to be involved.” I gestured to the people who were scattered around the room, hiding behind counters and booths.
“Valen…” Karl warned as he climbed off the floor, a hand pressing hard against the side of his head. Blood was smeared on his shirt and the floor, and I had to fight the urge to leap up and help him, but any kind of movement right now would end in disaster.
Chad waved the gun at Karl. “Stay over there. Don’t fucking come near us.” Karl lifted his hands in the air, reluctantly staying ten feet away. Chad turned his attention back to me, though he continued to watch Karl out of the corner of his eye. “We’re not leaving. We’re going to do thisright here.”
I swallowed hard. “You realize someone has probably called the police. It won’t be long until this place is crawling with cops and news vans.”
“That’s the plan,” he answered simply with a casual shrug. “And when they all get here, the whole world is going to see the kind of man I am. You are the one who tried to ruin me and everything I stand for, so it’s only fitting you get to be here while I rectify it.”
He was calmer now.
And that scared me even more than when he’d stormed in here only a few minutes ago. “How did I ruin you?” I asked simply to keep him talking, to see if there was maybe a way this could end peacefully and not with him firing the loaded weapon he was holding.
He scoffed. “We’ve already gone over this. You not only embarrassed me in front of my friends and family but the fucking world. You made me look like an idiot. Like I wasn’t man enough because you walked out on me to go throw yourself at this fucking billionaire!”
“I’m sorr—”
“No, you’re fucking not!” he spat. “You’renot. So stop lying. Just stop lying.”
“Okay,” I started, trying a new tact. “You’re right. I think you deserved to be called out. You’re the one who cheated.”
His angry frown morphed into a twisted grin, one that sent a chill shooting up my spine. “You’re right. You’re so fucking right. I did cheat. A couple of times a week actually with whores off dating apps.”
Sick.
That was the only way to explain how I felt in that moment.
So fucking sick.
“You want to know the real kicker, though?”
I didn’t.
But I played along.
“Sure.”
