Page 30 of Reignite

Breakable

When I got back to the living room, the mood had decidedly changed, and no one was saying a word.

Addison looked stricken with a plague that had her white made-up face looking incredibly paler, and Dominic was standing on the other side of the room.

Gray paced back and forth across the room talking on his phone.

“Ilario, dammit. This is what you’re there for. I can’t keep her safe if you don’t get me up to date intelligence.”

Gray talked to Ilario like he was a CIA agent or something. My poor sweet Ilario.

“Gray, I’m fine.”

He ignored me all together. I looked to the rest of the Scooby gang for answers.

I had to stare them all down with my evil eye before anyone said anything. Hawk finally caved.

“Addison here has admitted to Grayson that Foster Bennett hired her to spy on you.”

My head whipped around to the ashen Addison. “What?”

“I’m sorry, Angelina. Now that I’ve gotten to know Dominic and met you, I couldn’t do it. I needed the money, but it’s not worth it.”

“Dominic?” My voice had gone up an octave.

“Mistress. She fooled me.”

Esta jodido.

This was not happening. Not on my watch. Gray was going to go all commando on me, turning back into my bodyguard. Which was hot and all, but I certainly didn’t want it landing us back at the beginning of our relationship.

No. If I didn’t take control of this situation here and now, it was all going to hell. Coño, un desmadre.

“Everyone, sit down. You too, Addison.”

She turned toward the door “I should go.”

“Sit.” All that Domme training paid off right then and there. Everyone except Gray sat, almost where they stood.

I stared Addison down. “How do you know Foster?”

“I…I don’t. I just met him once. He came to the club I was working for and approached me. Told me he’d pay me ten grand if I’d try to get a job working for you.”

What an act this girl had put on for all of us. “I thought you didn’t sell yourself.”

She sank into herself and deep into the chair. “The money isn’t for me and that’s all I’m going to say about it, except that I can’t give it back as much as I wish I could now.”

She glanced over at Dominic and misery flashed through her. Addison had blown it big time.

Gray hung up and joined the pow-wow. “Ilario’s trying to find out now how long Foster has been here.”

Gray had his means of finding out what Foster was up to, I had mine. “Do we even know for sure it was Foster? Addison, what did he look like?”

Addison shrugged. “He’s tall, and built like Grayson, but he had those arm walking canes.”

Gray stood behind me and put his hands on my shoulders. “He wasn’t in a wheelchair?”

“No.”

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