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There’s more going on, things he hasn’t told me, and I’ve got Sasha to think about. I know I just went on about trust and picking up his phone and looking at the message that flashes is wrong, but… I do.

Sergio. That name again.

But what he writes numbs me.

Sergio

Stefina’s meeting with the wedding planner tomorrow. 10 am. As her future husband, you’re expected to be there.

I can’t breathe. Shit, I can’t see as tears invade, tears I refuse to allow to fall.

“What’s wrong?”

Demyan breaks me out of my spell, and I turn, hurling his phone at his head. It hits the wall and the lying bastard doesn’t flinch. “What? Am I just a piece on the side, you fuck?”

“Sergio,” he says.

My mouth twists. “Sergio wanted to remind you of your appointment with your fiancée and the wedding planner.”

He walks up to me. “Listen.”

“Fuck you, Demyan. I’m done. I’m not listening to you and your lies.”

I go to scramble off the bed, but he catches me and straddles me in his boxer briefs, holding me down. “Dammit, Erin, calm the fuck down and I’ll explain.”

“No.” I fight him, shoving him off me. I scramble to my feet, the world spinning fast. “I’m done.”

I run for the door, my feet unsteady and spots of black appear.

Demyan’s saying something, but he’s speaking from a long way away.

I’m done.

I’m fucking done.

I try to open the door but the world spins fast.

Then turns black.

And I fall.

Into nothingness.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

DEMYAN

I fucking hate hospitals.Even this private one we use.

And my heart is wild, fear eating at me as I pace in the small private waiting room.

Ilya looks at me but doesn’t try to stop me as something in me snaps and I try to storm the ER for the third time.

The nurse looks at me with the same expression she’s had the past two times. “You need to wait.”

“Do you know who I am? How much money I spend?”

“Sir, I don’t care if you’re the world’s richest man and own this place; you need to wait like everyone else. She’s being examined. Now sit or I’ll have you escorted out of here.”

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