Two Can Play (Celeste and Dominic) novel Chapter 160

The door opened and Felix stepped inside. He froze the moment he saw me, his eyes widening, his mouth falling open. I saw the concern flash across his face, the instinctive worry of a man who thought he was about to find a woman in danger. He rushed toward the bed and knelt beside me, his hand reaching out to touch my forehead.

“Seraphine, I am here. What happened? You are burning up. Oh my God, I need to take you to the hospital right now.”

“No.” I shook my head weakly, letting the tears spill down my cheeks. “The hospital cannot help me. By the time they run their tests and figure out what is wrong, it will be too late.”

“Too late for what? Who did this to you?”

I let out a sob, covering my face with my hands, my shoulders shaking with the force of my fake tears. “Celeste did this after she took my husband from me.”

“What?” His voice rose, sharp with disbelief. “What do you mean? Celeste would never do something like that.”

“She did. I am telling you the truth.” I lowered my hands and looked at him, letting him see the pain in my eyes, the anguish I had perfected over years of practice. “Celeste has been having an affair with my husband, Dominic. I caught them having sex in one of his houses. I confronted her at Helix and she humiliated me in front of everyone. She accused me of sleeping with her husband and everyone believed her because she has Dominic’s money and Dominic’s protection.”

He was shaking his head, his face twisted with confusion and denial. “No. That does not sound like Celeste.”

“You must have seen the news that Dominic donated five billion dollars to Helix.”

“Yes. I saw it.”

“That was because she was sleeping with him. That was the price of her pussy. Five billion dollars for a married woman who already had a husband, who already had everything, but she still wanted more. She wanted my husband too.”

He was silent, his jaw tight, his hands clenched into fists on his knees.

“When I went to confront her, she showed everyone a fake video of me with Julian and accused me falsely. She humiliated me. She kicked me out of the building. And on my way home, I was kidnapped.”

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between what he knew was right and what he wanted to do. He had wanted me for years, I could see it in the way his pupils dilated, in the way his breath hitched, in the way his hand trembled against mine.

“Seraphine, I am engaged. have a fiancée.”

“I am sorry. I would not ask if there was any other way. But I do not want to die, Felix. I do not want to die alone in this hotel room while Celeste sits in her fancy laboratory and laughs at my funeral. Please. Help me.”

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