Page 65 of Deceit
Dialing Kai’s number, he finally answered.“Miles.”
“Where the fuck have you been? What’s going on?”I growled, moving tostand as far from the bathroom as possible so Sofia couldn’t overhear.
“You made it to the bunkerthen?”he replied, confusing the hell out of me.
“Yeah. How did you knowthat?”
He sighed heavily, and a lump of dread landed in my gut.“Remember whenI sent Riley to the South of France, and you brought her back? I was so damn mad at you, but now I know it was the best thing you could have ever done for me.”
I scrubbed a hand down my face.“Kai, what the fuck are you talking about?I don’t have time to reminisce.”
“I know you’ll be mad at me, but I’m worried about you, Miles. You haven’tbeen yourself since we lost Theo, and I think if youjustgiveyourself a chance with Sofia, you can be happy again,”he continued, sounding more and more unlike my ruthless cousin I’d always known him to be.
“You’re really beginning-”
“It was our men following you,”Kai interrupted.“I knew you’d thinksomeone was following you, and I took a chancethatyou’d go to the bunker.”
My jaw clenched.“What do you mean,'it was our men following us?'”
“It was a setup, Miles,”he huffed, losing his patience.“Iset it up.”
“What the fuck, Kai? A setup? Sofia was scared out of her fucking mind!”Isnarled, my feet moving on their own to pace the bunker.
“And forthat, I’m sorry. But you and her need to spend time together.She’s good for you, Miles, youjustneed to get your head out of your ass long enough to realizethat.”
“Fuck you, Kai, you don’t get to tell me what I need.”
Fury coursed through me, my head spinning with his revelation, and mybody shaking with the need to pummel my fists into something. I stormed over to the doorthatwould lead back to the car, but the second I reached out to press the handle, a click echoed through the bunker. Still, I grabbed it and tried to shove the door open, but it wouldn’t budge.
“The security of the bunker has been signed over to Apollo for a few days,”Kai explained in my ear as I desperately tugged at the handle, but the door refused to open.“You can waste your time trying to overrule Ash’s security, but my advice? Spend the time with Sofia. Like you bringing Riley back to me, I suspect this will be the best thing to happen to you.”Withthat, he disconnected the call.
Not thinking straight, thanks to the blinding white rage thrumming throughmy body, I launched my phone across the bunker. It smashed against the wall and landed on the ground, and I couldn’t help but glare at the splintered screen.
“What’s going on?”a soft voice asked tentatively from the doorway of thebathroom.
I closed my eyes, but kept my back to her, unable to look at her for fearthatI would lose all control over my temper.“We’re stuck here.”
“What do you mean,‘we’re stuck here?’”she demanded. I counted to ten inmy head, and when I failed to answer, footsteps shuffled across the room. I cracked my eyes open to find her staring at me with a fearful gaze.“What’s going on, Miles? Who was chasing us?”
Resignation rushed through me like a tidal wave. I had no choice but to tell herthe truth, not when it was evident she was still terrifiedthatsomeone had been after us. It had probably brought all sorts of memories back from when she was kidnapped.“No one was chasing us. It was a setup.”
Her brows lifted.“A…a setup? I don’t understand. Who would dothat? Andwhy?”
Her barrage of questions added to the frustration crawling through me, and my attempt to keep my temper in check was gradually crumbling.I scrubbed a hand down my face, giving myself a second to compose my thoughts.
“My fucking idiotic cousin has somehow got it into his thick headthatweneed to spend some time together.”
I couldn’t hide the disgust in my tone, but it wasn’t aimed at her.
I was disgusted with myself.
Because, despite the anger coursing through me at our current predicament, there was a part of me—namely my cock—thatwas running wild with ideas of all the ways we could spend our time. All of those ideas involved me slamming inside her again, and feeling her tight pussy clenching around me.
SomethingthatI wouldn’t allow to happen again. Not unless I wanted todrown under the betrayal already weighing me down.
At my words, hurt flashed across Sofia’s face, and her sparkling blue eyeshardened.“Right. ‘Cos spendinganytime with me is unbearable for you, isn’t it? Don’t worry, Milo, I’ll do my best to keep out of your way. It shouldn’t be too hard, I’m used to being invisible.”
Before I could respond, she stomped back to the bathroom, slamming thedoor behind her, the lock sliding into place with a resounding click. NotthatI would have stopped her from walking away. If I had, I wouldn’t have been able to stop the truth from leaving me.
