Total pages in book: 27
Estimated words: 25085 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 125(@200wpm)___ 100(@250wpm)___ 84(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 25085 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 125(@200wpm)___ 100(@250wpm)___ 84(@300wpm)
I walked down the aesthetic hallway to her door. The neo classic white on black décor so vastly different from the warm French country chic my wife had chosen for our home. Two very different tastes two vastly different women. One I’d chosen as my mate for life, the other I’d enjoyed for a time.
I knocked on her door being sure to stay out of view of the peephole.
As soon as I heard the locks disengage I used my shoulder to force my way in.
“Stryker…” She clutched at her throat as she stepped back.
“Hello Sabrina, surprised to see me?”
“Well of course I am, I never thought to see you here again.”
“I’m not sure about that.” I walked deeper into the room looking around as if I was just in the neighborhood and decided to drop in for a late night chat.
“So to what do I owe this pleasure?”
She was more relaxed now. I wasn’t yelling or throwing shit which is probably what she would expect if she thought I knew what she’d been up to. That’s exactly why I wasn’t going there. What I needed from her would take cunning; as long as I could keep my rage under wraps I should be able to get what I’d come for.
“I think you know why I’m here don’t you?”
“I’m afraid not.” She walked over to the settee and sat, the silk robe she wore falling open to expose her crossed thighs, the top exposing just enough cleavage to draw interest. It was a very practiced move I’d seen it before.
“Come now Sabrina let’s not play games, you wanted to get my attention so here I am.”
“Why would you think that I’m trying to get your attention? That ship has sailed.”
“Then why have you been terrorizing my wife?”
I saw the change that came over her at the mere mention of Nadia. Her countenance changed from one of beauty to be filled with venom and malice, which played across her features in a split second.
“How dare you? I’ve done no such thing, why should I?”
“That’s something I’d like to know myself. It’s not like we were even together when I met her so I don’t see why you would target an innocent.”
“Innocent? She’s no innocent everyone knew you were mine it was in all the papers. We were the IT couple for months and then she came along and you just dropped me like…like I was nothing.” This bitch is nuts but I can’t show her my true feelings, not yet. I have to keep playing the disinterested bystander when all I really want to do is wrap my hands around her neck and throw the bitch out the nearest window.
“That’s just it, you and I were through long before I even met Nadia.”
“That doesn’t matter I was working on something. I would’ve had you back before long but she had to come in and wrap her filthy hands around what’s mine. No one breaks up with me Stryker didn’t you know? I do the leaving.”
“Is that what all this was about, because you weren’t the one to end things?”
“Haven’t you heard a word I’ve said? You were to be my husband, I’d decided.”
“Oh I see, but by that token I should be the one at the end of your anger I don’t see why you started this campaign against her. She had nothing to do with it. Why the phone calls?” First things first.
“Oh that, that was nothing, it did work though didn’t it? Stupid girl, she ran like a frightened rabbit only she didn’t go where I’d expected her to.” She frowned at this and seemed to have disappeared in her head.
“What does that mean?”
“I thought for sure she’d run to her parents that’s where I had my man set up to take care of her.” My blood ran cold at her words. How had I never seen this in her? How had I missed it all those months?
“What exactly do you mean?”
“What…?” She looked up at me as if just realizing I was still there.
“You said you had a man set up to take care of her. What did you mean?” I kept my voice level and disinterested, we could’ve been discussing the weather for all the inflection in my voice.
“Just that I was going to take care of her once and for all but instead she ran to Paris. By the time the papers ferreted her out it was too late to set up something new.”
“So you came back here and regrouped, tell me did Jonas Willoughby have anything to do with this sinister plan of yours?”
“Not in the beginning no, I only got him involved when I learned that he was in love with your insipid wife. But then that night after the dinner he got cold feet. Weak fool.”