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My cheek brushed his jaw as I turned my head to stare up at him. “Hailey? What does she have to do with this?”
Had he somehow dragged Hailey into this mess? I knew it was a mistake to allow her to be present in the courtroom. We knew I was up against powerful people. She should have stayed away. I had now pulled her down with me.
“She just married Greyson.”
Wait…what? I expected him to say she was now a target or arrested on a trumped-up charge or something. Anything but… “That’s not possible.”
“I assure you it is.”
“When did she meet him?”
“Yesterday.”
My eyes widened. “Yesterday?”
“She got caught in the crossfire with the court guards.”
I turned in his arms to grasp his shirt. “Is she okay?”
“She’s fine.”
“And she’s now married.”
“Yes.”
“To a man she met yesterday who just happens to be working with Jameson.”
“Yes.”
“Have I mentioned that you rich people are batshit crazy?”
“Once or twice.”
“Why did she marry him?”
He loosened the belt of my robe. “For the same reason you are going to marry me.”
I tightened the belt. “I just called off the wedding.”
He brushed my hands away and pulled open the lapels, leaning forward to run his mouth along my collarbone. “Yes, but you weren’t serious about that.”
My fingertips dug into his shoulders as he flicked my nipple with the tip of his tongue. “I really was,” I breathed, my head falling back.
He tightened his grip around my waist and pulled me closer as his hard cock pressed against my stomach. “Then I need to change your mind.”
CHAPTER 55
PIERCE
All warfare is based on deception.
I wondered if Sun Tzu had a butler.
By now Jameson knew I wasn’t dead. It was time to finally end this.
“Play along,” I whispered in Madison’s ear before placing a kiss on her temple.
We entered the butler’s pantry.
