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.

that something was upsetting him and I knew that I needed to sniff out any and all fires he had

here.” I walked up behind him. “It’s just me in this

man was angrier than I had ever seen in my

out of your

“Damon,” I gasped.

that he wanted you. But you chose not

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.

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

and hurt. I could see the pain that contorted his

guess that had not been enough. I

voice came out so meek and small. “I know you’re mad and this doesn’t look good.

seems, frust me.”

told me this man felt nothing for you. Don’t gaslight me any more than

so thick you could cut

“He

about to come when

did have feelings for me but he told me they were done. That was what we

that painted his face was like a sucker punch to the gut. Knowing that I had

Chapter 85

because we were finally in a good place. And after Paris, I didn’t want this

stared at me like he couldn’t even recognize me and I didn’t know how to feel

tell you about these feelings?” It was

and

you mean the same day you flipped

I winced. “Yes.”

as my friend while you knew that asshole wanted you? Am I a fucking

Damon. I didn’t want you to be uncomfortable knowing I was seeing

air in pure exasperation. “I’ll tell you, I feel like shit. You didn’t do it for my sake, Adie. You

“That’s not true.”

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

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