Bedmates Soulmates novel Chapter 112

You Can’t Have Both Of Them 

Austyn narrowed his eyes. 

Kira had a gutsy friend. 

Giana took his silence as an admission. 

Her face fell. 

‘Mr McCarthy,” Giana drew herself up. I know you’re rich and powerful, but that doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want, like having an extramarital affair.” 

Her voice shook a little, but she ploughed ahead. ‘Cheating may not be illegal, but it’s immoral as hell. I’m sure a man of your stature won’t stoop to such an unethical, dishonourable, just plain wicked act.” 

Giana didn’t press Kira when she refused to give a straight answer about Kayleigh and Austyn’s 

relationship, but that didn’t mean she would turn a blind eye when her best friend was getting bullied in her secret marriage. 

In her view, might did not make right. 

‘Kira is a good girl,” Giana continued. ‘You married her, and you’ve, ahem, been intimate with her, then you should treat her right.‘ 

Austyn stared straight at Giana, who hid her trembling hands under the quilt. 

She was prepared to give the alleged cheater a piece of her mind, but the man, tall and well–built and immensely commanding, gave off a threatening aura that made her want to turn tail. 

How could Kira stand living under the same roof as him? 

“If you want your wife, you need to sever ties with your mistress. If, however, you have feelings for Kayleigh, then you should give up Kira. It’s an either-or situation. You can’t have both. Trust me, keeping this up will only hurt everyone involved.” 

Especially Kira. 

Austyn did not say a word during Glana’s long speech. 

He just kept running those dark eyes over her face like he was trying to see into her brain. 

With that scowl, the pursed lips and the square jaw, he looked like Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent, minus the 

cape 

Kira must have a hard time keeping any secrets from him. 

Giana tried not to flinch. 

She’d said nothing wrong, and she stood by her words. 

After a while, Austyn finally spoke up. ‘Miss Mills, I have a question of my own.” 

‘Sure.” 

“Why do you care so much about Kira?” 

‘We’re friends.” 

‘Do you always get in the middle of all your friends‘ domestic affairs?‘ 

Was he calling her a busybody? 

“She’s my best friend, Glana sald defensively. 

“Still, your concern seems a little…over the top.” 

‘The man must not have many friends,‘ Giana thought. ‘He doesn’t seem to understand how friendship works.” 

“Families can turn on each other,‘ Austyn said, let alone friends.” 

That put Giana’s back up. 

She gave a mirthless smile. ‘Mr McCarthy, you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. I know you super–rich, upper–crust lords look down on us mere mortals and live in a parallel world, which I’m sure is filled with nefarious schemes and backstabbings that come with the territory. With friends and families constantly at each other’s throats, feuding over control of your vast fortune. I watched ‘Dynasties,‘ I know.” 

She paused to catch her breath. ‘But out here in the real world, Mr McCarthy, friends and families don’t turn on each other. They care about each other and stand up for each other when one of them is wronged. Just because you may not have encountered them in your rarefied circle doesn’t mean true love and true friendship don’t exist.” 

Giana stole a glance at the man’s sphinx–like mien. 

He wasn’t mad about that last jibe, was he? 

It was so hard to tell; he had a good poker face 

Oh well, if he was offended and decided to punish her, she might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. 

Before she lost her nerve, she asked, ‘Mr McCarthy, one last question.” 

He gave no indication of either approval or rejection. 

Do you love Kira?’ 

If the man was so cynical as to doubt the existence of true love, was he capable of loving someone? 

Her question drew a scoff from him. 

‘Love?’ he curled his lip. I’m a businessman. I don’t have time for fairy tales.” 

Giana sighed in her heart. 

Poor Kira. 

She married a tin man. 

‘Like I said, just because you’ve never seen it doesn’t mean it’s not real.”