Chapter 108

Chapter 108: Now He Was A Beast

Angela POV

"She's not answering. This isn't like her," I said, worry coloring my voice."It's so late, where could she have gone?"

Christopher placed a reassuring hand on my shoulder."Don't worry, I'll stay here

with you

until Olivia returns."

"She's not answering. This isn't like her," I said, worry coloring my voice.

Christopher placed a reassuring hand on my shoulder. "I'm concerned about you and your friend. Let me stay until you reach her."

Just then, my phone chimed with a text message. I quickly opened it to find a message

from Olivia:

Don't worry about me! I went back to the hotel to look after that man-the one we took to

the hotel together. He'll need someone when he wakes up, and I think this might be my

chance! Goodnight! xx

The color drained from my face, and my phone nearly slipped from my fingers. "Angela?" Christopher's voice sharpened with concern. "What's wrong? What happened?"

I shook my head, struggling to find words.

"Nothing... just... I'm worried about her. She barely knows that him, yet she went to his hotel..." I said, collapsing onto the sofa.

"Olivia is a smart woman," Christopher reassured me. "She knows how to protect herself."

I opened my mouth to explain why I was so concerned, then closed it again.

How could I tell Christopher that the man Olivia was so enamored with was my ex-husband-the father of my children-without revealing the past I'd worked so hard to

leave behind?

Christopher leaned forward, his amber eyes searching mine. "Is there something you're

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not telling me?"

I sighed, wrapping my arms around myself. "It's just... returning

you need, I'm here, "Christopher walked over and

shoulders.

reflecting concern.

earlier?"

realize that in my panic over Olivia's absence, I had somehow misplaced the cashmere coat he

it," I said simply.

on Christopher's cashmere coat, trying to gather my composure. The evening's

process.

living room, Christopher was ending a

was David," he explained, slipping his phone into his pocket. "He's gone to look

Olivia."

you," I said, settling back into my

me for a moment. "Why did Olivia go to that hotel in the first

carefully. "To check

man, who is he to

someone she's been admiring from afar who

completely intoxicated tonight."

suspicion in his eyes, making me

ultimately, he said nothing

is

a quick message on

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a long

wait until we hear from Olivia," I protested, even as exhaustion

me.

image of Olivia unbuttoning Sean's shirt at the hotel flashed through my mind... I shook my head, telling myself it wasn't possible, that such a thing couldn't be happening...

"But-

pressed gently against my lips, silencing my

gesture was intimate, possessive in a way Christopher had

amber depths glowing with an intensity that made

his voice dropping lower

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