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.

calm, almost amused. "I was there

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. The sweetness was cloying, almost too much. Wayne's tone shifted. "I heard you had

crept up

the strings. If

out, so I decided to keep up the charade." It's

a faint smile. "Smashed

take risks like that. People like that are dangerous. What if you'd

you'd make him pay with half his life,

life wouldn't be enough," Wayne said, his voice softening as his gaze rested on me. "Rea, nothing is more important than your

way he could feign such depth after orchestrating the whole thing-it

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

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

reflection in the mirror as I tried to steady my breathing. For

time, it hit me-truly hating someone could

to uncover Wayne's ties to the Drago family's dirty dealings, I had to suck it up.

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feel, I couldn't let

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