er palms that the skin nearly broke. A vio

stead, she pulled her phone from her pocket, hit reco

and walked tow

on to the details Evert ignored. Her fingers flew across the keyboard. She navigated to the Apex Club's VIP client portal and typed in the universal backend override

s. The footage from 11:00 PM to 11:15 PM w

ameras. At 2:00 AM, the footage showed Jax Kade storming out o

t angry at 2:00 AM, he wasn't the man in th

ed down on her lungs. She glanced at the calendar

a trench coat, and put on a pair of

Manhattan. She kept her head down, handed the cashier a

he foil open. She swallowed the pill dry. It scraped

t into a tight ball, shoved it into her c

e adrenaline crash hit her. The room spu

ut of the shallow pocket and fell silently onto the thick c

e collapsed onto the bed in her clothes

eech of tires tore

oke up in the hotel and saw Cherie next to him, a wave of intense physical repulsion had hit

at a time and shoved

rt walked toward her, intending to

er black turtleneck. The fabric was slightly bunche

k, violen

roar filled his ears. The rational

olently yanked the col

overed in fresh, aggressi

rabbing her arm and haulin

in terror. She thrashed against his g

emonic growl. His fingers dug into her biceps.

no words came out. She could

ack, his expensive leather shoe caught the edge of

rumpled receipt lay e

paper. The bold black letters screamed

threw the receipt directly at her face. I

"You break the loyalty clause of our contract, a

e-" Clarine started

m his pocket and dialed his legal team. His eye

the phone. "Invoke the infidelity clause. She gets n