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.

stayed calm, almost amused. "I was there for

and taking a sniff. The sweetness was cloying, almost too much. Wayne's tone shifted. "I heard

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 unsettlingly

at this. It wasn't the right moment to call him out, so I decided to keep up the charade." It's fine. I

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

me. Don't take risks like that. People like that are dangerous.

you'd make him pay with

his voice softening as his gaze rested on me. "Rea, nothing is

his words, the way he could feign such

fast I barely had time to think. I clamped a hand over my mouth and

I heard the scrape of Wayne's chair as

sink, staring at my reflection in the mirror as I tried to steady my

time, it hit me-truly hating someone could actually make

Drago family's dirty dealings, I had to suck it up.

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made me feel, I

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