Chapter 21
Kas's POV
When I woke up from my nap, I felt much better. I could hear maintenance staff still out in the apartment, speaking in hushed whispers. Bronx asked me to stay in the bedroom until they were finished, so I pulled out my laptop to see what was going on in the world. I have basically been missing for a week. It doesn't matter who you are; the world turns with or without you.
A red scrolling bar at the top of the home screen has Bronx's name on it. Huh?
I click on it and get directed to a news page. There is a video of Bronx sitting in front of a blue background. The headline just reads 'Rare Statement From MasonCo CEO'. I put on my headphones, lean back against the pillow, and click the play button.
I'm mortified for the next three minutes. My face flushes red, first out of embarrassment that he would tell the world I was missing and almost drowned, then from anger at the thinly veiled threats he made to whoever took me, and back to embarrassment when I hear him say he is offering reward money for information that leads to the arrest of the kidnappers. I open more windows. Every site I go to has the same video with various articles about it.
"Bronx, get your butt in this bedroom right now,"I snarl through a mind link.
“Is everything okay, Baby? I'm still out here with maintenance. They will be finished in ten minutes."
"Oh yeah, everything is just dandy, considering you announced I was missing and almost drowned and then threatened my kidnappers over the internet."
"Oh. You saw that?”
saw that. How could I not? It is on literally every
and I'll be
and disappear again. How am I going to go to work with all this attention? My bakery is in the human town. It's on one of the main streets
Lex
us.”
“You're not helping, Lex.”
want a man to scour the
Swoons.
Where is the feisty warrior child of the Moon Goddess who constantly wants revenge?
you feel it? This is his way of showing it. It's romantic if you
she is
day we got married, I knew I might be a target for attacks. I think it just comes with the territory when you are married to a multi-billionaire. When we first met, I knew he was well off, but I did not know how much money he was actually worth. Honestly,
All my clothes came from a donation pile by the dumpster of my old pack house. I didn't even have an actual bed, my makeshift furniture was all from trash. Going from that to having everything I could imagine and more can be overwhelming. A small part of
message was a smokescreen. That's enough. This rabbit hole is bottomless. I
the bed and lets me scold him without interruption, watching me intently as I
words, I stand in front of him with my hands on my hips, waiting for an answer. He doesn't say anything. He just takes
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