Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 694

"Do you remember who it was?" Ron pressed again.

"I think you need to focus on healing and getting back to work," I said lightly, dodging. "Your daily check-ins are the highlight of my day." Then I hung up with a laugh.

Wayne stepped inside as I set my phone down, placing the bouquet on my desk. He studied me for a moment. "It's been a long time since I've seen you smile like that."

"It was our boss," I said, using Ron as my cover story. "He got scratched up by his girlfriend and was complaining to me about it."

"Let me guess-he went to a club," Wayne said, casually. saw him there."

My pulse stuttered. He saw Ron? And Ron mentioned seeing someone who looked like Derni. If Ron wasn't mistaken, then... did Wayne see Demi too?

And if she really was in Seavora, what about the person she was so terrified of?

I'd always had my suspicions. That person might just be Wayne.

"Is that so? Seems like all you men have a thing for places like that," I teased, watching for a reaction.

amused. "I was there

Mr. Shane said the same thing, but his girlfriend wasn't buying it. Made a whole scene," I said, lifting the bouquet he'd brought and taking a sniff.

crept up my

nerve of him-to sit here acting worried when I knew he was the one pulling the strings. If Xander hadn't shared that recording, I might've fallen for it. Wayne's earnest expression was

to call him out, so I decided to keep up the charade." It's fine. I handled it myself, so I didn't

gave him a faint smile. "Smashed the guy's head. Blood

like that.

had gotten hurt, you'd make him pay with half his life,

be enough," Wayne said, his voice softening as his gaze rested on me. "Rea, nothing

the way he could feign such depth

I barely had time to think. I clamped a hand over my mouth and bolted for the

heard the scrape of Wayne's chair as he got up,

staring at my reflection in

me-truly hating someone could

wanted to uncover Wayne's ties to the Drago family's dirty dealings, I had to suck it up. No matter how sick

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feel, I couldn't let it

someone who looked like Demi at DracoLux. Was he wrong? Or