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No…
No, he couldn’t do this. Not to me…not to me.I closed my eyes and squeezed them shut, praying this was all just a bad dream. My phone vibrated in my hand, forcing me to not only open my eyes, but accept reality. Everything had been a lie. All of this. There was no love, no desire. Finley Salvatore had used me. He'd used me…and I fell for it. I fell for it all.
Agony stabbed through my chest, sawing and severing, until I was sure my heart detached.
Unknown: If you want to see your father alive, meet me now. You have twenty minutes to get to building 0, before your boyfriend delivers your father to Dominic Salvatore as a traitor.
For a second, my feet wouldn’t move. I willed them…MOVE NOW!Leale lifted his head to look at me as I stumbled away from the table.
Tears blurred my path as I quietly made my way into the bedroom and tore off Fin’s shirt. I wanted it far from me, desperate for my own clothes once more. I watched him, riveted by the rhythmic rise and fall of his chest as I quietly tugged the zipper on my bag and speared my hands inside. I grabbed what I could. A bra, panties, a button-up shirt, and jeans. My jacket was shoved at the bottom. I lifted my gaze, there was no way I could get it free without waking him.
Beep.
I wrenched my gaze to his phone. I was moving before I knew it, desperate to quiet the sound, and snatched his phone from the nightstand.Call tracking information: Caller Unknown. Message received: 4 in total.
Call tracking information?
Heat burned all the way up my cheeks. He was tracking my phone?He was tracking my damn phone…I took a step backwards as fire burned all the way through my chest and into my face. He'd not only played me…he'd betrayed my father as well.
He shifted in the bed, reaching out his hand. Was he searching for me? Even as his betrayal played out in front of me? What kind of callous bastardwashe? He was a Salvatore alright.Like father…like son.
I stepped back, unable to take my eyes off the man I’d given myself to. I wanted to scrub away the feel of his body. I wanted to burn away my own sick desires. But as I stepped quietly away, I knew I’d never be free…not from craving him…or from what I’d done.
I looked down at his phone and swiped down, disabling the WiFi and mobile data before pressing airplane mode and calculator. My fingers worked fast, punching in numbers to exit and turn the phone to the side. One more swipe and I was in, no passcode and no fucking remorse. Not anymore. I’d never do this, never betray his trust like this. I’d never put to use all the things I’d learned from hundreds of hours spent hacking, coding, laundering, if it hadn’t come to this.
He shifted in the bed, mumbling something, then clearly,“Anna…”
He called for me…even in his sleep.
I was rocked by the ache in his voice. But it was all just a play, right? All just a deceitful fucking lie. My stomach clenched as a wave of nausea swept through me. And all of a sudden, it made sense.
I have some information about a certain someone. You know, for the initiation.Kilpatrick’s words returned to me and Finley’s answer followed.He’s all yours. I have a new target now.
He had a new target alright…and that target was me.
I forced myself to look away from him as something hit the screen of his phone with asplat.Tears slipped down my cheeks before I brushed them away with the swipe of my thumb and stared at the screen. I swiped left, to the lesser apps he used, finding one markedCameras. I clicked on the icon, finding the black and white real-time footage of the camera outside my building…then the camera inside.
Not only did he monitor my calls and texts…he watched me.
My insides turned to water as I found another folder markedSaved.I opened it, finding one video. It was more than curiosity now. It was aneedto know. I opened the saved video and watched it play out. At first, it was hard to see…until I saw myself shift in the bed.
“Fin…”My own throaty voice drifted from his phone.
My cheeks burned as I saw the darkness shift beside me. Movement came, a figure stepped close and lingered near the bed.
“Fin,please,”I whispered, my hand moving under the sheets.
But as the shadow moved, it hit me. It was the same build as the one from tonight…the same male who'd shoved my dad toward a boat.It was Pavlov.
Pavlov had seen me…touching myself.
And Fin knew it.
“Anna?” I jerked my gaze to the bed as Fin moved, shoving his hand out. He lifted his head and I stumbled backwards. “Anna?”
He was more awake now, lifting his head from the pillow and searching the dark. I dropped his phone and it hit the carpeted floor with athud.
“What are you doing?” he mumbled.
