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Two Can Play (Celeste and Dominic) novel Chapter 374

When Dominic showed up at the courthouse and dragged me away from her, I did not fight. I let him think he had won, and the moment he was gone, I picked up her trail.

I spent the rest of that day following her.

I did not do it alone. I hired extra men, planted them at different angles, so that if I lost her, they would not.

I followed her to a shop, and I knew immediately what she was doing there. She was checking the authenticity of the recording I had sent her. I waited, watching from a distance, and when she came out, I saw the look on her face. I saw the way she leaned against her car, the way her shoulders sagged, and I felt a joy so sharp and sweet it almost hurt.

She doubted him now. She doubted Dominic.

I followed her to Helix after that, waited outside for hours, and when she finally came out and began to stroll, I kept my distance, careful to stay behind her bodyguards, careful to stay invisible. I watched her walk, watched the sad, dejected slump of her shoulders, watched the way she stared at nothing, and the joy inside me grew until I could barely contain it.

She was falling out of love with him. She was coming back to me. I could feel it.

And then everything shattered.

No. No. No. No.

I could not breathe. My chest was a cage of broken ribs, my heart hammering so hard I thought it would tear through my skin. I sat in my car, gripping the steering wheel until my knuckles went white, and watched his car drive away into the dusk.

And when they were gone, when the taillights had vanished into the dark, I spoke the words into the silence, quiet and certain as a vow.

"Celeste, in this life, if I cannot have you, no one else can."

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