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But wouldn’t saying it for the sake of saying it be the same as lying?
She didn’t want to lie to him. Especially not when he’d probably see right through it anyway.
“I’ll…I’ll consider it,” she said. “Marriage…and children.”
And Rayna would.Would have.
If only they hadn’t run out of time.
Chapter 42
Rayna
The loud blaring of a phone startled Rayna awake early the next morning, and Dominic flinched, cuddled around her naked body from behind.
He groaned into her hair, shifting against her before she quickly lifted her head, blindly patting on the bedside cabinet for the vibrating device.
She grabbed it and squinted at the lit-up screen, trying to get her bleary eyes to focus.
When they did, wariness plastered itself down her spine, making her stiffen.
“V”was printed as the caller ID.
For him to call at six in the morning on a Sunday…something wasn’t right.
“Rayna?” Dominic rasped as she bolted upright and swiped to answer.
“V?” she said. “Is everything okay?”
She felt and heard Dominic sit up behind her.
There came a heavy exhale on the other end of the line, and she knew Victor was rubbing a hand over his face. “I need you and Dominic to meet me at the lab. Now,” he muttered.
Sharp shards of ice-cold fear cut through her veins.
Dominic’s hand settled on her lap as he whispered her name, but she’d gone so stiff and numb, she couldn’t feel the warmth of it.
“Why?” she managed to ask.
“I’m sorry, Rayna,” Victor croaked.
There was a painfully long pause as she waited to hear the words her gut was dreading.
“The Board knows about your relationship with Dominic.”
Chapter 43
Rayna
Rayna’s pulse pounded at the base of her throat as she walked quickly through the pale blue corridors of the POTeM lab with Dominic following right by her side.
The edges of her vision were blurred, her limbs numb, her mind an utter blaring mess, but she’d walked these halls so many times that her feet knew exactly where to take her.
When she turned the next corner, her heart dropped to the pit of her stomach.
River, Ash, Monty, Victor, and George.
All five men who’d originally witnessed how it had all started were waiting outside one of the lab’s meeting rooms. They looked across to her and Dominic.
