Chapter 248
“Do not worry,” he said. “Celeste is my sister. I will deal with her. I give you my word.”
“Please help me, Felix. She is going to destroy me.”
“I will handle it.”
He was out the door in under a minute, his footsteps echoing down the hallway as he rushed off to confront his sister on my behalf. I watched him go, and when the door clicked shut behind him, I let out a long breath and said to the empty room, “Oh my God, it is almost too easy.”
I went back to my phone, refreshing, waiting, counting down the minutes until noon. fell asleep with my phone in my hand, the screen still glowing, the news still empty of the headline I wanted.
The ringing pulled me out of a dream I could not remember. My phone was buzzing against my palm, the screen showing my mother’s name, and I answered with a groggy, “Hello?”
“What have you done?” My mother’s voice was a scream, high and shrill, cutting through the fog in my head like a blade. “What have you done, Seraphine? Your video! It is everywhere! Everyone has seen it! You have been ruined!”
“What are you talking about?”
“Your sex video! The one with that man! It is all over the internet! Someone has ruined you, and I know it is that good for nothing Celeste! What were you doing? Why did you not take care of it? How could you let this happen?”
I do not know how long I sat there crying. Minutes. Hours. Time had lost all meaning. All I knew was the ache in my chest and the wetness on my cheeks and the overwhelming certainty that my life was over.
And then I heard footsteps.
I looked up, my eyes swollen, my vision blurry, and I tried to see who was there. But before I could react, a hand clamped over my nose and mouth, and a chemical smell filled my lungs, and the world tilted sideways and went dark.
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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....