Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband novel Chapter 198

198 Where Is He? 

(Winona) 

I look around the front and try the huge metal door, but it doesn’t budge. I’m super nervous in case he surprises me. He can’t be trusted. I know that. I don’t know why he wants me here. I just know why I want 

to be here. 

I don’t even want to listen to one poison word from his mouth. I’m going to shoot first and ask questions later. Get rid of him forever and then I can breathe. I can live without fear of him. 

Walking away from my past forever will never happen while he’s alive. 

There’s an alleyway down one side and I grip the gun in my hoodle pocket and walk carefully down there. I see a doorway. A side door. It’s ajar, a dark gap in the otherwise solid wall. 

I push it open and step inside, the musty smell hitting me immediately. 

I stop, it’s darker than I’d like. I should’ve brought a torch. I could use my cell phone, but I don’t want to drop it and I might need both hands for the gun. My eyes adjust to the light level as I move quietly inside. 

My eyes scanning, every inch of what I can see. 

And what I see is…nothing. No one. 

The place is dead quiet as I walk, I’m wearing soft shoes. My hand tightens around the gun still in my pocket. But there’s no sign of Steve. No sign of anyone. What the hell? He wouldn’t have left. 

Why would he bring me here? He’s probably watching me, waiting. Fear hits me and I edge back towards the door I came in. I’m too vulnerable here. He could have anything set up. 

I feel the doorway at my back and stand just inside the open door. I’m not losing my escape route. 

“Steve?” I call out, my voice bouncing back at me. 

Nothing. 

My heart is hammering. “Steve?” I call again, louder this time. 

Still nothing. A cold dread settles over me. This isn’t right. Where the hell is he? 

I pull out my phone, checking the time. 5:15. He should be here. 

I look around the empty warehouse, he isn’t here. I can’t do what I came to do. I let go of the gun in my pocket and sigh. I turn to leave and then almost have a heart attack when I see a figure outside. 

“Winona, what the fuck are you doing here?” But it’s not a surprised question. 

“Jayden? I thought you flew out on business?” 

“Sorry. I lied.” 

“How did you know where to find me?” 

“Security.” He pulls me away from the warehouse door and pulls it shut. 

“You’re having me followed?” I shouldn’t be surprised. But it distracts from why I’m here. 

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“Of course.” 

“Why?” 

He looks around and holds his hands out. “I think that’s obvious.” 

“You have no right to have me followed. You said the security was on our houses, not on my every move.” 

“Winona, we don’t have time to argue over this. Steve is in your neighborhood. Gus tracked him when he turned up in the city again. He called me.” 

“What? That bastard tricked me. Mom is home alone.” 

“Why did you come here alone? You know he can’t be trusted.” 

“I came to kill him.” 

Jayden stares at me because he knows I’m serious. “Winona, you could go to jail.” 

“Your mother avoids it just fine, so I can play that game too. I’m sick of being shafted because I do the right thing. I’m bringing him down if it’s the last thing I do.” 

“Is your security system armed?” 

“Of course. Mom is sleeping.” 

“Let’s get back there. Just in case. Where’s Abby?” 

“With Lisa, Cass is at work.” 

“I don’t trust that Steve isn’t going after Abby. I’ll send someone around to get them.” He punches his phone with his finger as he sends a message. 

“God, I left everyone like sitting ducks, didn’t I? Mom’s alone. Abby’s with Lisa alone. Cass is at work. He could literally pick them off one by one.” My blood runs cold. Idiot. He played me like a fiddle. 

“Are you okay, you’ve gone white as a sheet.” 

“That’s what his message said. That he would take out everyone I loved one by one.” My stomach churns with dread. 

“Don’t panic. This might just be mind games.” 

“Where do you want to go now?”