Chapter 69

My heart flips over with that unfamiliar pang of pain, and I forget my fear when faced with it. A new emotion is stepping to the plate, making me forget why I should be cowering before him.

My tears dry up when my brain moves to curiosity instead, and the smirk I see tugging at his face tells me I will not like the answer.

“I replaced you. Well, added to you, so when you come back, Joanne… My new girl is your co-hostess. Santagato is taken with her, and as I rebuffed him on her too, he thinks I’m a possessive fuck. You’re not in his sights anymore, especially with your absence and my screwing Joanne a little publicly in the VIP lounge. It means he thinks I don’t share my girls at all.” Alexi seems completely deadpan now with a smug little look in his eye as I churn inside, my heart wrenching at what he said he’s done. I feel sick as tears sting, but I blink them away and swallow them all hard.

Hating him more, wounded by the thought that he had slept with someone s