“Clarify that you simply lied,” I cry. “That you simply’re not who you fucking mentioned.” My coronary heart feels prefer it’s shattered into one million items and my throat feels tight.

“I’m. What I’ve advised you is true . . . every part however my job.”

I all of a sudden really feel exhausted. “Take me residence.”

* * *

Nero forces me to drink a lot of water earlier than guiding me upstairs to mattress. I can’t bear to have a look at him not to mention converse to him, so when he turns the sunshine out and leaves, I’m relieved. I cry into my pillow. I’ve been such an fool . . . once more.

I drift off right into a stressed sleep, tossing and turning, and dreaming of Callie and Emerson. I wake with a begin when the sunshine floods the room. Dante leers over me, and the worry I’d left behind for a pair days quickly returns. “Dante,” I whisper.

“Rise up.” I sit and the room spins. I maintain my head. Fuck, I forgot what a hangover appears like, and it’s not good. “Are you sick?”

“No.”

“The place’s Nero?”

I frown. “I don’t know.” Final evening comes flooding again, and I all of a sudden really feel worse. I ought to inform Dante. If he finds out that I knew and didn’t say something, he’ll be so indignant.

“I’ve breakfast downstairs. Let’s go.” I observe him down, smelling the bacon as I get nearer. The very last thing I wish to do is eat. “I had somebody are available in and prepare dinner for us,” Dante says as we enter the eating room. I stare on the desk stuffed with meals.

Minutes later, Nero seems with Kai. He provides me an odd look, and I believe he’s silently pleading with me to remain quiet. “All the things okay, Boss?” he asks.

Dante factors to the seat on his proper, and Nero sits whereas I sit to the left. “I believed we may have breakfast and a catch-up.” He begins to pile meals on my plate. There’s no method I can eat, but when I inform him that, he’ll punish me, so I choose on the bacon.

“Do you wanna discuss in personal?” Nero asks.

“No. Let’s get all of it out within the open.” Nero glares at me. He thinks I’ve advised Dante. “Lets begin by speaking about this?” he asks, holding up a condom wrapper. It’s the condom wrapper Nero used.

I start to panic, my physique shaking as I attempt to consider a solution shortly. I open my mouth to talk, however nothing comes out. “It’s mine,” says Nero.

“Clearly,” snaps Dante. “What I wish to know, Nero, is why the fuck there’s a used condom within the rest room?”

“I’m so sorry,” I cry. “I’m sorry.”

“Shut the fuck up,” Dante growls as he turns again to Nero. “I gave you a easy instruction. Fuck my spouse, get her pregnant. You fucked my spouse utilizing a condom. Do you not perceive primary intercourse training, or ought to I present you?” The phrases hit my mind and confusion follows. Dante provides a merciless chuckle. “Oh, wifey, you didn’t suppose he really needed to fuck you?”

“Tess, ignore him. Hearken to me,” shouts Nero, standing. Kai rushes ahead, grabbing Nero’s arms and pulling them behind his again. “It was actual. It was all actual,” he continues to yell.

I stare, open-mouthed. His phrases sound distant as Dante laughs tougher. “I employed him to get you pregnant, Tessa. He doesn’t give a shit about you. All he needs is to work his method up in my agency.” My coronary heart breaks, shattering right into a thousand items. “All of the dinners, the little dates, the picnic within the park,” Dante hisses, “I cleared all of it.”

“That’s not true,” yells Nero. “He’s mendacity.”

“So, now you could have a selection—fuck my spouse, or I’ll discover somebody who will.” Dante grabs my hair and pulls me to my ft. He shoves me over the desk, pinning me face down. “What do you say, Nero? You or Kai? Who needs to go first?”

I relaxation my face towards the laborious wooden and stare at Nero. He seems devastated, and in some way, that hurts me too. He deserves to harm. I ought to blurt out a few of my very own truths, however I don’t need him to really feel ache. I don’t need him to really feel the identical as I do as a result of it’s an excessive amount of. Nobody deserves to really feel like this. Dante pulls my shirt up over my arse, and I hear him laughing over the whooshing sound in my ears. This have to be how Emerson felt. Poor Emerson. My coronary heart twists painfully.

My hand slides slowly throughout the desk to the fruit knife. Nero is struggling to free himself as Kai shouts for Enzo to return and assist. In all of the commotion, they don’t discover me take the knife, and I smile as a result of, for as soon as, Dante’s dropped the ball. For as soon as, I’m going to win.

I don’t really feel the blade go in. I believed I might. Actually, this feels nothing like I’d imagined. Perhaps Emerson helps from the opposite facet. She is aware of I’m prepared, so she’s making the ache really feel much less. I pull my hand as much as my face to verify and, certain sufficient, it’s coated in sticky, pink blood. I smile wider, aid flooding me. I’m going to be free. Lastly.

“Tessa?” Dante yells, pulling me up and turning me onto my again. He assesses me along with his eyes, freezing on my now bloody inside thigh. “What the fuck have you ever carried out?”

“Jesus, if she’s hit the femoral artery, she’ll die in minutes,” shouts Nero. These phrases carry me consolation and I shut my eyes, ready patiently for demise to return.

NERO

Kai releases me, and I take off my shirt, ripping it down the center and wrapping it round Tessa’s wound. “Name an ambulance,” I demand.

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