Page 179 of Accidental Theirs
“We haven’t meant to hide it, Liv. It’s just...”
“Marie says there’s another leak. Someone more dangerous,” Sebastian answers.
God.
Another leak? Another person that betrayed me?
“Who is it?”
“We don’t know,” Damien says quickly, as if in a hurry. “But they just tried to use the code. Since Marie is here...”
“Then the leak must be at Carter Holding.”
I look at them. “Go. Hurry. Don’t involve the cops. Not yet.”
Dominic frowns. “Why not?”
“Because. I just... just listen to me, okay?”
I can’t explain to them that I don’t know if I’m pressing charges because I don’t know if I can do that to Marie. She betrayed me, yes, but she is still my best friend in my heart.
“Okay,” Damien says quietly, and he draws me to him, kissing the top of my head before they leave.
I sit there with my thoughts spiraling.
The guard finally opens the door and calls me, and I walk in slowly, like I’m going to the gallows.
I might as well be.
Marie looks so small sitting at the metal table. She’s always been petite, but it’s like she’s shrunk in on herself.
I haven’t noticed, but I can tell now that she’s lost a good deal of weight in the past few months.
Guilt, I suppose.
Anger rushes through me for the first time. I’ve just been so hurt that I haven’t been able to feel it.
She doesn’t look up at me.
“Why did you do it?” I demand to know.
She flinches but still won’t look at me. “It doesn’t matter. I can’t take it back.”
“Would you even want to? Did you do this just to hurt me?”
She gasps. “I would never hurt you like that if I had a choice, Olivia.”
“Could have fooled me. What reason could you possibly have for doing this?”
I sit down stiffly in the metal chair across from her.
She’s shackled to the table, and I can’t stand to hear the sound as it jingles when she moves.
“I did it for Callum,” she whispers.
I blink at her.
For Callum?
