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Chapter 85
Chapter 85
Chapter 85
Chapter 85
I was woken up by the sound of loud banging. I had drank one glass too many of champagne and now I was paying the consequences of my choices. I groaned, placing a pillow over my head and trying to drown out the loud sound. But de more I tried to ignore the louder it got.
“Adelaide! I know you’re in there.”
Wait a minute? Was that
“Adelaide.”
Yep, that was my husband’s loud bombing voice. But what was he doing here, in Paris?
I peeled the sheets off my body and made my way to the door in my little lace night dress. I opened the door trying to squint away the blinding light that filtered inside.
“Damon?”
He looked like a sight. His hair was disheveled and he had bags under his eyes. His hazel eyes were blazing and they looked behind me in search of something.
“What are you doing here?” I rubbed my eyes trying to correct my vision. “And why do you look made
He pushed past me and entered the room. “Where is he?”
“Who?” I followed him into my suite. “What are you talking about? Slow down and talk to me.”
He wasn’t listening to me. He charged into the room and started looking everywhere. His behavior was concerning me “Damon,” I called after him. “What the hell are you doing?”
“Come out you wife–stealing asshole.”
Okay, woah
This was now getting to the point where I was feeling very concerned. All the hungoverness I had been feeling faded and 1 was now clear–headed.
Now that he was screaming like this it all made perfect sense. I saw that something was upsetting him and I knew that I needed to sniff out any and all fires he had set alight in his mind.
no one here.” I walked up behind him. “It’s just me in this room.”
He wurled around with his nostrils flared. This man was angrier than I had ever seen in my life. I even had to take a step or Two back away from him.
“So did he leave? Did you make him get out of your bed after he had his way with you?”
“Damon,” I gasped.
“What?” he snapped “All this time you said it was in my head and I believed you. I told you that he wanted you. But you chose not to listen to me and made me out to be a crazy man. But look!”
He took out his phone and showed me an article that showed Gabriel and me at the cast dinner. The way it had been photographed suggested that there was more going on than just talking which was certainly not the case at all.
“What Nothing to say? You had a lot to say the last time I was telling you to stay the fuck away from him, Adelaide” His voice vibrated off the walls of the room “Look at this! Look at it.”
His eyes were molten with rage and hurt. I could see the pain that contorted his features.
I should have told him and I had done my best to reassure lum but I guess that had not been enough. I should have been honest with harm Maybe, if I had then we wouldn’t be in this position right now
“Damon,” my voice came out so meek and small. “I know you’re mad and this doesn’t look good. But this is not what it
seems, frust me.”
“Trust you“” he scoffed. “I trusted you when you told me this man felt nothing for you. Don’t gaslight me any more than you already have Adelaide. Does this man have feelings for you, yes or no?”
The silence was so thick you could cut it with a knife
“He
gulped I knew what was about to come when I opened my lips.
“You’re right, Gabriel did have feelings for me but he told me they were done. That was what we were speaking so ustently
The hurt that painted his face was like a sucker punch to the gut. Knowing that I had caused that damn near broke
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“Damon,” I tried to reach for him but he pulled away. “I didn’t want to tell you when he first told me because we were finally in a good place. And after Paris, I didn’t want this little happy bubble we had created to pop.”
His tongue poked the inside of his cheek. He stared at me like he couldn’t even recognize me and I didn’t know how to feel about that.
“When did he tell you about these feelings?” It was unnerving how calm his voice was.
“The day you came back from Vegas and Ashton had come to the house.”
“Oh, you mean the same day you flipped out on me about Angela?”
I winced. “Yes.”
“You’re such a hypocrite, you came at me for having Angela as my friend while you knew that asshole wanted you? Am I a fucking joke to you?”
“I work with him, Damon. I didn’t want you to be uncomfortable knowing I was seeing him every day.”
“And what about now? How do you think I feel now, dear wife?” He raised his hands in the air in pure exasperation. “I’ll tell you, I feel like shit. You didn’t do it for my sake, Adie. You did it for yours.”
“That’s not true.”
“It is and you and I both know it.” The break in his voice cracked the soft flesh of my heart. “You did it because you wanted to save face for your project. You told me that if there was even a whiff of him liking you that you would quit. Do you remember that Adie?”
I did. But that had not been what I had been thinking of when I made the decision to keep it a secret. I wanted to keep it a secret because I had thought it would only do more damage than good and I wanted the fighting to end.
But now that I was standing here with him looking like I had ripped his heart out I knew I had made the wrong choice. In choosing to protect his feelings I had managed to hurt him way more than I could have ever imagined.
“You told me to limit time with Angela and I did that. You told me to break away from her and I did. I did everything you ever asked of me and in return, I only asked that you did the same but instead, you chose to lie to me.” He shook his head in
disbelief. “Had this been the other way around you would have blown a gasket.”
pure
He was right.
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“I’m sorry.” I tried to walk toward him but he held up his hand stopping me.
“I was stupid and dumb but I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want to try fighting to ignite again. I don’t want him, Damon. He may have wanted me but I never for a second moved my heart from you. You are my one and only person. There is no land on this earth or star in this universe where you are not mine and I am yours.”
I couldn’t lose him.
“I’m sorry,” the tears pricked my eyes as I took a slow and steady step toward him. “I am so sorry that I didn’t tell you but more importantly, I’m sorry for making you feel like you were going mad. I was only trying to protect us but in doing so I hurt you.”
A thick blanket of silence covered us as we just stared at each other.
What I would have given to have the inside look into his brain.
He lifted his hand. “Come here.”
I didn’t waste any time and ambled into his embrace. I circled my arms around his waist and pulled him in against me. He pulled me in tightly and kissed the top of my head. “Don’t do that again.”
I nodded into his hard chest. “I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay,” he muttered into my hair. “It’s okay, my love.”
The road ahead of us was a rocky one but nonetheless, we still had to navigate it somehow. But I knew that as long as he kept his hand in mine we would conquer all the mountains set before us.