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“I was tricked.”
“Cut the shit boy. You allowed yourself to be tricked. But you know what, you’re right you aren’t like your father. You are so much worse and I don’t want you anywhere near my daughter. Sasha had his shortcomings but he was nothing like you.”
Speechless I stare back at him. I don’t know what to say.
“Get that divorce or she sees this,” he adds. “I tell her the truth.”
He’s talking about River.
“Cross me and I will expose you. You’ll lose whatever you stood to gain from marrying my daughter and you lose her too.”
He tosses the envelope on the floor and wheels around me, then he leaves.
Feeling numb I pick up the envelope, knowing there must be more inside to damn me. There is.
Inside is a report showing the tracking pathway to my computer I used back then. It was registered to me. Once again it’s odd Neil would have found information like this when I cloaked myself.
One of the things my grandfather was glad for when this went down was that it couldn’t be traced to me. Very few people can track past the cloaking device I would have used back then, so how did Neil find a fucking way?
Fuck… that’s not the problem now.
The problem is that he knows. The secret is out there and he could use everything he knows to destroy me. I’ve gone from holding my secrets close to my heart to hanging off the edge of a cliff.
The question now is, what do I value most.
River.
I value her more than anything. even if Neil exposes my ass to the world and I lose the respect of my grandfather and the empire, I can’t lose her.
Not like this.
I have to talk to her today.
I can’t wait any longer.
Chapter31
River
“How are you feeling?” Eden asks, sounding hopeful.
She called me just as I was about to leave the house to go for a walk.
I press the phone to my ear and sit on the sofa in the sunroom.
“I think I’m doing better.”
“That’s good. I was so worried about you.”
“I’m okay and tons better than when you last saw me.” It’s a half truth. I am better than when she saw but more anxious than I’ve ever been in my life. I’m still eagerly waiting for Jericho to tell me what happened to him in the past. Or I suppose what happened tous.
Part of me wants to be mad at him for not sharing the truth with me sooner—like years ago—but I feel like can’t be too upset with him. One because I have a feeling it’s quite serious, and two because he’s done so much for me.
That said, the more time that passes the more angsty I become.
I’ve told Eden the nicer, more sentimental parts of my conversation with Jericho in regard to us staying together, but I didn’t tell her anything else. The aspect of the trouble felt like one of those things couples should keep between themselves.
It’s a good thing she’s been away with her students again because I might have changed my mind.
