“If you touch so much as a fucking hair on her head, I’ll?—”
He laughed before I could finish, low and bitter, like the sound had been sitting in his throat for weeks.
“I have no intention of killing her. Not physically, at least.”
My brows furrowed as he checked his watch, thumb tapping the glass like a trigger.
“What the fuck did you do?”
The moment the words left my mouth, the first beep echoed through the mansion.
Then another. Then dozens.
The music cut mid-beat, laughter faded, and the entire place started to shift. Heads tilted down. Faces lit up with the pale glow of their phones.
I felt the buzz in my pocket and pulled mine out.
A video had been sent. Every guest had it. Every screen was playing it.
The screen blurred for a second as I tapped it open. My fingers felt colder than they should.
At first, just black. Then the wind picked up, and I heard her voice.
“Look at the view, Théo. It’s so beautiful.”
Then mine.
“It is, baby.”
Her laugh followed, warm and close. The camera shook slightly, catching a glimpse of her body pressing into mine. Bare skin under moonlight. Her legs around my waist.
Then moans filled the speakers. Hers first. Then mine. The rhythm was brutal. Skin on skin, wet, loud, fast.
She was screaming my name.
Even in the dark, it was clear what was happening. The camera caught enough. The outlines. The movement. The way her fingers clawed down my back, the way her hips rolled. My hand gripping her hips. My mouth on her throat.
Then the moonlight caught her hair for a second.
Red. Wild. Unmistakable.
And her voice broke through it all, breathless and soft.
“I love you, Théo.”
The video kept playing, but the room went dead. Not a sound.
I looked up.
Everyone was staring. Around the pool, by the bar, lining the hall. Frozen with their phones still glowing in their hands. Faces lit with something between shock and curiosity.
And Travis?Gone.
Slipped out while they watched us fuck, like it was a show made for them.
He hadn’t ruined her night.
He’d lit a match and let her whole world fucking burn.