Chapter 173
JULIAN
Everything after that moment was a blur, a smear of color and sound that my brain refused to process in any coherent order. I remember screaming. I remember the guards at the gate, their hands on my chest, pushing me back, their voices telling me to leave, that I was not welcome here.
I remember fighting against them, my fists swinging, my body straining toward the door I knew she had disappeared through, the door that had closed behind her and that bastard like a curtain falling on the last act of a play I had not known I was starring in.
Every second I spent outside that gate was another second Dominic got to do whatever he pleased with my wife. The thought was a blade twisting in my chest, sharp and hot and relentless. I could see him in my mind, his hands on her, his mouth on her, his cock inside her, and the image made me want to tear the world apart with my bare hands.
I fought until my arms ached and my lungs burned and my voice went hoarse from shouting. And eventually, the guards relented. They pulled open the gate and let Seraphine and me through, but not before snatching both my phones from my pockets and the one Seraphine had brought along. I did not care about the phones. I only cared about getting to Celeste.
But when I reached the door to the room where they had disappeared, I found it locked. Solid. Impenetrable. And there was nothing I could do but stand there on the other side, my fists pounding against the metal, my voice cracking as I called her name
over and over.
The scene I witnessed killed me.
Dominic Ford. I had never hated anyone with so much passion in my entire life. The man had a beautiful wife dying for his attention, a woman who had been crying for him, searching for him, begging for him, and he ignored her completely to go after my Celeste, luring her with five billion dollars and a partnership that had turned her head and made her forget everything we had built together.
And now I regretted not having my phones with me. I would have captured every second of Celeste’s shamelessness, would have filmed her moaning and writhing under another man, would have used it to teach her a lesson she would never forget.
But what filled me with horror more than anything else was her reaction when she saw me. No shame. No guilt. No flinching or looking away. She locked eyes with me through the square opening in the center of the door and yet she did not stop. She kept moving, kept grinding, kept taking his cock like I was nothing but a stranger she had accidentally made eye contact with on the
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I looked around, scanning the street, and I saw her. She was walking in a daze, her steps slow and aimless, her head down, her shoulders slumped like she was carrying the weight of the entire world on her back. She had seen everything too. She had watched her husband fuck my wife while I watched my wife fuck her husband. We were both casualties of the same war, two soldiers bleeding out on the same battlefield.
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The readers' comments on the novel: Two Can Play (Celeste and Dominic)
Agent Frost better teach Tasha how to protect herself if anything gets out of hand or if she’s ever in danger or forced again...
I need some good news for Tasha. Special Agent hear her out and don’t let her get back into that life. Do I hear a romance or someone Tasha can truly count on besides Scarlett??...
I hope Tasha is let off and helped by this detective and gets away from all this maybe a twist for this novel is she gets on the good side of things and gets away from that life completely even if she has to separate herself from Scarlett but it appears Tasha gets hurt by Scarlett’s and sparrow’s stupidity as she’s blamed for Scarlett’s decisions...
Her life is ruined and Scarlett’s been living a luxurious life through it all...
I officially hate everyone for hurting Tasha and allowing things to happen to her. This whole Sparrow and Scarlett situation is some BS....
It’s a bit stupid that as powerful and ruthless sparrow is he and Scarlett sure do a lousy job of protecting and having guard on Tasha. Like how did all of this happen to her if he was supposed to be protecting her based on the contract??...
More Chapters Please...
I thought it said 10 chapters a day??? It’s been like 2-3 days and no update after chapter 574. The release time is so inconsistent, I have started to just loose interest....
Just find Tasha and get her some help. How did she have sparrow’s men watching her if she really cared so much. Scarlett’s character is so suspect…...
Storyline is interesting it’s just so much sexual content I have to skip through just find out the main context of the story....