Two Can Play (Celeste and Dominic) novel Chapter 228
Chapter 228
I cursed him in my mind, a litany of hatred that burned through the grief. I cursed myself too, for my naivety, for my stupidity, for believing that a man like Kingsley Duke could ever want someone like me. I was thirty years old. I had waited my entire life for something special. And I had given it to a camera hidden behind a curtain.
I do not remember taking myself home that night. I do not remember climbing the stairs to my apartment or unlocking the door or collapsing onto my bed. I do not remember the hours I spent staring at the ceiling, my face wet with tears, my mind replaying every moment of that hotel room on an endless loop.
But I remember the morning. I remember the pale light filtering through my curtains, the ache in my jaw where I had slapped myself, the cold resolve settling into my chest like a stone. I sat up and looked at myself in the mirror across the room. My cheeks were red, swollen, marked with the outline of my own fingers. My eyes were puffy, my hair a disaster, my skin sallow from a night of no sleep.
I looked like a woman who had been broken. But I did not feel broken. I felt something else, something harder, something that had crystallized in the dark hours of the night while the world slept.
And I was not going to let Seraphine win.
I took a shower and let the hot water beat against my bruised face until I could feel the blood moving beneath my skin again. I put on clean clothes. I applied concealer to my cheeks until the red was barely visible, until I looked like myself again, like a woman who had not spent the night crying.
When I arrived at Helix that morning, I pretended like everything was fine.
Celeste didn’t realize anything. She had no idea what I was carrying. And she had no idea that Seraphine had spent the night plotting her destruction. And I could not tell her. Not yet. Not until I had done what I needed to do.
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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....