Page 61 of Sapphire

Fuck. That’s horrible.

“Did Ruby know how you ended up at the bottom of our gates?” I ask.

Zoe shakes her head. “All she knew was that they had told her and the other girls that I was dead.”

Other girls? Words escape me listening to Zoe’s story.

“What happened to Ruby?” I ask

“She went back into the party with that man. I tried to get her to come home with me. I needed to save her, but she refused. She was adamant that I needed to run. That they would come and kill the both of you. Ruby said they would stop at nothing if they found out I was still alive.”

“And that’s why you think you need to go? Because Ruby said they would be after you?”

Zoe nods.

I turn and look over at Tomas as he’s remained quiet this whole entire time.

“Do you have nothing to say?” I question him.

Tomas looks up at me, the lines between his brows are pulled tightly.

“Seeing Ruby again triggered all your memories?” Tomas asks Zoe.

“Tomas,” I warn, not liking his tone.

Zoe’s eyes widen hearing the accusation in Tomas’s voice.

“Yes.”

“All your memories?” Tomas questions her.

“Not all but most,” Zoe answers honestly.

“Have you been lying to us?” Tomas asks.

Zoe gasps at Tomas’s accusation.

Just as I am. “What the hell are you thinking?”

“I’m thinking that Zoe works for the Bratva. The same people who have been terrorizing my brother and me over our hotel contract in Mykonos,” he states angrily.

I’d forgotten about all that. Tomas had kept a lot of the details from me, choosing to keep it between his brother and himself while I got ready for my first art exhibition. It all happened right before Zoe turned up.

Fuck.

Now I understand Tomas’s thought process.

“What are you saying?” Zoe asks, looking up at him with blue eyes hard as steel.

“Are you a honey trap?” Tomas asks honestly.

Both Zoe and I are taken aback by his question.

“You seriously think I beat myself up, gave myself memory loss all to what? Steal something from you?”

“Tomas, you’re being irrational. Zoe is not connected to those men.”

“I’m being irrational? Those men nearly killed our project manager. They tried to send another employee to jail. They poisoned another’s dog. They ran someone off the road. Not once, not twice. I’ve lost count of all the things they have done to my employees,” Tomas shouts at me.

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