Page 102 of Between Never and Forever
“Sir, we intercepted this being delivered to your suite today. Without an address, we would like permission to open it and assess any threats.” Jimmy held out a red envelope and immediately Kee’s heart rate spiked as she recoiled from it.
Jesus, I needed to turn off my alerts from her engagement ring when I was with her. Still, it signaled that she knew what the envelope was before I did.
“No,” Kee blurted out.
I narrowed my eyes. “You know this envelope.”
“I do. It’s…”
Right then, Dimitri jogged up. “Dex, you meant it when you said you were going to handle your shit out there today, huh?” He glanced down at what we were all looking at. “What the fuck, Kee? Another letter?”
“Dimitri, don’t—”
“What the fuck do you meananotherletter?” I snatched it out of my security’s hand even as she tried to grab it from me.
“He’s going to find out anyway, Kee. Dex doesn’t leave any stone unturned. It’s actually compulsive behavior at this point.”
“Shut the fuck up,” I gritted out because I was reading.
“It’s not a big deal,” I heard her whisper.
But the words were a very big deal. So was the picture. Of her in our damn suite. Without clothes on.
You go to sleep with him sometimes, Keelani. This was only supposed to be a fake engagement. You’re only supposed to be in my bed. Your virginity was supposed to be mine to take.
Don’t you know that?
And you didn’t respond to my texts. When can I see you? I’ll bring down that whole hotel if you don’t respond soon. I’ll ruin that man. And you. The punishment for sleeping with him is going to be brutal.
I’ll make you feel better though.
I promise.
Just text me back. Tell me where I can see you. I need to see you.
You know better than to ignore me.
The chaos was startingto spin out. The top that I’d had twirling round and round perfectly all this time was wobbling, ready to fall down and destroy everything. “You got texts, Kee?”
Her eyes flicked to the windows where a crowd was still outside and then to me. “Not from him.”
I looked down at the letter again, and she peered over to see it, but I folded it up, my heart pounding faster by the second. He’d tapped into something well enough that he knew her secrets and mine. He’d been better at snaking through my security measures than I had been at setting them up. There was a chink somewhere in the system that I was missing.
“I want the fingerprints off this letter, Jimmy. Immediately.” I looked him square in the eye so he knew the gravity of the situation.
“Is it bad?” she asked.
“Of course it’s fucking bad. The last one he had your damn panties in the envelope, Kee.” Dimitri looked about as worried as I felt.
“I want the other letter sent to our security team.”
“They’re just empty threats. And there’s only been a few in a whole year.” She shook her head at both of us.
“Even so, they need to be informed.” I looked to my brother for confirmation.
“He’s right, Keelani.”
She sighed, like handling it all herself was the only way she wanted to do things. “Fine. Anyway, we need to worry about the media. Dex, punching someone is a problem. And what I said is a problem too.”
