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Thirty seconds later he reappears, slightly breathless as he seethes into the phone. “No, Nick, not soon. I need it done now. I don’t care. Get Sal working on it, that’s what we pay the fucker for, isn’t it?”
A moment of silence passes as he listens to whatever Nick is saying on the other end, and then his eyes cut briefly to mine.
“It’s none of their business, Nick. She did nothing wrong. It’s not like last time.” More listening, a few seconds pass, and then he thumps his fist into the end of the mattress. “Yeah, I know she was my therapist, what’s that got to do with…okay fine, I won’t comment, but…alright, alright, I’ll talk to you later.”
He hangs up, and I swear he looks like he’s about to smash his phone into a million pieces. He tosses it onto the mattress beside him, and then he glances back over at me again, and there’s so much regret in his eyes this time that it’s impossible to see past it. Shadows cross his face, and the cut of his jaw seems harder than it was before he went downstairs.
“What’s going on, Kael?” I ask lamely.
More shouting comes from below on the street, more questions and more flashes, and then we both startle when there’s a loud bang on the front door.
“For fuck’s sake,” Kael grits his teeth. His large frame begins to vibrate, and his face is absolutely murderous. “If they wake Bailey up, I’m going to kill them. He doesn’t need to know about any of this. He won’t understand.”
“Understand what?”
Just then, my phone vibrates with an incoming text message, stopping me clean in my tracks. I look down at the screen in my hand, clicking the link with trembling fingers, and I’m taken straight to a gossip website, one article in particular.
I click PLAY, and as the images appear on the screen, my throat tightens, and horror clamps down on me, tears instantly filling my eyes. My vision blurs, but not so much that I don’t instantly recognize what I’m looking at.
A couple on a bed. Having sex.
The woman is completely naked; her backside is on clear display to the camera, as are her breasts and her genitals, and from this angle, I can see she’s being penetrated from behind by a man who looks to be made of nothing but solid muscle.
The room is dark, but the video looks to have been taken with a professional camera because it’s not grainy at all, not distorted in any way, and the people in the video and the setting are instantly recognizable.
It’s my bed linen. My bedroom furniture, it’s the curtains I hung when we first bought this house. I can see it all now, all there in high definition.
My gaze whips from one thing to another, trying to take it all in at once. Hot tears spill from my eyes when I blink, running down my cheeks, but I don’t bother swiping them away. The longer I stare at the two people in this video having sex, I know with complete certainty that I’m about to pass out.
Kael slides his arm around my waist, holding me tightly against him. “It’s doing the rounds. Nick said it was released to the media in the early hours of this morning from a streaming carriage. The fucking ghouls are champing at the bit for an exclusive interview.”
Fighting through the overwhelming fog, I blink a few times as the video continues to play. There’s no sound, but there really doesn’t need to be. It’s very obvious what’s happening—it’s a couple deep in the throes of passion.
That moment between us had felt so intimate, a new stage in our relationship. Kael had worshipped my body so thoroughly, so possessively, his hands wandering, his lips eager and ready, positioning me this way and that, desperately making sure he had me exactly where he wanted me …
Wait.
I suddenly freeze.
Oh, god.
Oh god, please no.
No
No.
I shake my head, more tears falling.
The most sickening thoughts suddenly race through my mind, scattered and scrambled, and I don’t know which one to acknowledge first.
I glance up at Kael in complete dismay.
He reaches for my hand to hold, but I jerk it away. My skin feels too tight. My lungs feel too full. I can’t breathe. I take a step back and then another. I need to get away from all this. I need to get away from Kael.
I’m such an idiot. Fear twists tightly in my gut.
“Sienna?”
