It Doesn’t Matter Anymore novel Chapter 46

Chapter 46

Chapter 46

Back in Chezino, fury was a stone in Aaron’s gut. He called his assistant. “Where is she?”

“Sir, she flew to Pibrowa. Then vanished. We’re tracking”

“Pibrowa.” The Elliott stronghold. A new panic surged. “Get the car. I’m going.”

“Wait!” The assistant’s voice was urgent. “There’s something else. About Serena. You need to see this.”

A leaden dread filled Aaron. “I’m on my way.”

Thirty minutes later, he burst into his study. His assistant stood grim, a tablet ready.

“Show me.”

The assistant played an audio file. Serena’s voice, sweetly vicious: “Take her to the old warehouse. A finger, maybe. And remember, she did it t

herself.”

Aaron’s face went ashen.

Another file. Serena to a prison guard: “Make her time a living hell. I’ll make it worth your while.”

Then video. The Harvey living room. Serena pouring water on herself, clawing her own arm, then throwing herself down, shrieking, “Aaron! Loui pushed me!” – juxtaposed with the truth: her grabbing my hair, my defensive shove.

Clip after clip. Her manipulations. Her poison.

CRACK.

The tablet smashed onto the glass table. Aaron’s fists were clenched, knuckles white. A tremor wracked him.

“Dig!” he roared. “I want everything! Every lie!”

The assistant fled. Alone, Aaron sank to his knees. Serena’s lies played in a loop. Louisa pushed me. Louisa doesn’t love you.

A pain lanced through his chest. He gasped.

Then the memories I lived flooded in: my shattered look when he accused me; the despair as guards dragged me away; my final, cold goodbye

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