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“Raine?” Concern coats his voice as I fight the urge to vomit.
I don’t want to do this.
I don’t want—
“You feel a little warm.” He presses the back of his hand to my forehead. “Maybe you should get some fresh air.”
“No,” I rush out. “I think I just need to lie down.”
“I can walk you back to your room?”
“I’d like that, thank you.”
He helps me out of the booth, wrapping his arm around my waist.
It feels all wrong still. A heavy weight I feel everywhere, crushing the air from my lungs.
No one bats an eye as we walk out of the bar area and into the hotel foyer.
But why would they?
They only see a beautiful young woman being wined and dined by a handsome older gentleman. It’s nothing they haven’t seen hundreds of times before.
“I’m on the second floor,” I say, retrieving my key card from my wrist bag. He plucks it from my fingers, ushering me into the lift and tucking me against his side.
“I think it was the last cocktail,” I lie. “It went straight to my head.”
“We’ll get some water inside you and something to soak up the alcohol.” His fingers brush down my waist and my eyelids flutter closed.
I imagine it’s Theo next to me. His arm around me, his aftershave permeating the air. But when the lift doors ping open and I force myself to open my eyes, reality comes crashing down around me.
Theo isn’t here.
And he isn’t coming to save me.
Not this time.
25
THEO
“What the fuck are you doing?” Oak barks when I stalk through the kitchen a few hours later, with my sights set on the front door.
My anger from before has waned, leaving behind nothing but devastation and a whole heap of embarrassment.
She played me.
Me.
An Heir.
How fucking stupid is she?
It’s a good thing she’s leaving because there’s no way in hell she’ll be able to show her face at school again. If she thought shit was bad when she first arrived, it will be nothing compared to the onslaught if she dares turn up for class tomorrow.
You don’t treat us like that and get away with it.
No one does. Her pussy might be good, but it isn’t that fucking good.
