Chapter 74


    After security handled my brother and threw him out on his a ss I made sure to check on Corinna. I had


    found her curled up in the corner of her room hyperventting. It had taken me over thirty minutes of


    me trying to calm her down. But even after her body was still shaking. I knew that she was likely in


    some form of shock.


    After she started crying again, I called my personal doctor toe over and he was over within twenty


    minutes. He was able to give her a sedative that knocked her out. I had never seen her so broken


    before in my entire life. She looked like a deer in headlights and I would be lying if I said it didn’t touch


    my heart in some way. The girl had been a bi tch but she didn’t deserve any of this. No one deserved to


    have to live under the tyranny of a man like Ashton.


    I knew that Adide didn’t want to ask for her help but after what happened today, I needed to do


    something. She would want me to do something. I had tried to call her but as expected my wife was still


    avoiding me.


    So I did the next best thing and decided to call someone for help. I called Ang and that was how she


    ended up sitting in my kitchen with a coffee mug in her hands. I had a ss of scotch in one hand and


    an ice pack over my knuckles.


    The anger had dwindled and now all that was left were the little. remnants that lingered behind.


    “Are you okay?” she finally broke the silence that had enveloped us.


    “No.” I stared out the window. “This is all so f ucked up. You should have seen him, Ang.”


    There were parts of me that wanted to finish off my brother but I knew The focus now was to


    disconnect Ashton from my sister-inw. Thewyer we had hired was useless and Ang worked at


    the best firm in the state.


    that would only add to my problems.


    had the resources to help her and I would do what I needed to. Adide wanted me to be kinder to her


    sister and this was me extending my kindness. I only hoped that when she learned what I did she


    would understand.


    “You should have seen her. She looked terrified out of her mind.” I


    couldn’t get the blood-curdling scream she let out when I tried to hold her. Her entire body shook


    violently and she only fully calmed when the doctor arrived. “There’s more than we know that went on


    back in Vegas between the two of them.”


    My brother was a master maniptor and he knew how to get to people. He had done it with my wife


    and now he was doing it with Corinna. She didn’t deserve this kind of pain at all.


    “I wish you would have told me sooner.” I could feel her eyes on me but I kept my gaze forward. “I


    actually haven’t heard from you in a while, I was starting to think I had offended you in some way.”


    It wasn’t me who she had offended but that didn’t matter. What mattered was making sure that Corinna


    got the help that she needed.


    “Can you help her?” I took a sip of the scotch, allowing the liquid to burn my throat. It was ten in the


    morning and I was drinking hard liquor. I was by no means an alcoholic but it made this situation


    somewhat bearable. “She needs to get rid of this as shole and I need the process to be as quick and


    efficient as possible.”


    “I’m more than happy to help but I think it’s only fair you give me an exnation, Damon. You just went


    ghost on me. You didn’t respond to my texts or calls. Did I do something to upset you?”


    I looked at her through my peripheral, giving her a side-eye. “I wasn’t trying to be a di ck. I was only


    trying to make my wife feel morefortable.”


    I watched her shoulders tense momentarily before they rxed. “So it was Adide then?”


    I nodded.


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    “She hates me?”


    This time I turned to her. “She doesn’t hate you. But she just feels like you are trying to get a little too


    close to me.”


    Her eyebrows pulled together into a frown. “Close to you? Like I want to steal you from her?”


    Her reaction was one ofplete shock and confusion.


    Maybe my wife had been wrong. Maybe she didn’t like me the


    she said she did after all.


    way that


    “I don’t mean to offend you, Damon. But after my ex, I don’t know how long it’s going to take for me to


    feel anything for anyone else.” She smiled sadly. “And if I ever made you feel ufortable in any way


    shape or form I’m so-”


    “No, don’t apologize. I told Adide that it was nothing of the sort but I guess she was just feeling …


    protective over me.” I sighed, bringing all my attention back to my drink. “I used to have a y boy


    reputation and it was hard for her when we first got together. I just didn’t want to give her any reason to


    feel ufortable. Im sure you can understand why I did what I did.”


    “Why you look like a man who’s been kicked


    She shook her head. “Is tha


    in the groin?”


    One thing about Ang that didn’t escape my notice was the fact that she was very perceptive and


    able to read people with ease. It was quite refreshing to not have to put on a face and act happy when I


    clearly


    wasn’t.


    “Partly.” This had been one of the worst fights that Adide been in. “I messed up and said something


    stup id.”


    and


    I ha


    She hummed in agreement. “I don’t mean to intrude, but did this have anything to do with the article of


    her and Gabriel?”


    “You saw that?” Well, I guess the world saw it. I had hoped that somehow it hadn’t had such a big


    reach. But what was I to expect? The movie she was working on was going to be a global


    phenomenon. All eyes were on her and the cast.


    She nodded.


    “So, I can help Corinna. But what would she think of me helping you now? Won’t she get upset seeing


    me in your house?”


    I opened my mouth to respond but the sound of my wife’s voice beat me to it.


    “I’m debating on how I currently feel,” Adide said.


    There she stood in the archway of the kitchen with her arms crossed over her chest. Her eyes weren’t


    looking at me but rather the woman I had invited into our home. “Hello, Ang. What a surprise to see


    you here… again.”


    I could tell from her tone alone that she was less than pleased with


    Ang’s presence here. And I was yet again in hot water.


    “Baby.” I stood from my seat.


    This was the first time I was seeing her after our fight. The pressure in my chest released a little from


    simply being in her presence.


    Her eyes moved to mine slowly, almost painstakingly slow. There was no warmth in them. All I got from


    her was nothing but a nk stare.


    I knew her mind was turning. She had made it clear how she felt about this woman and we had even


    gotten into a fight about her. And now I had brought her here. Maybe I had jumped the gun a little too


    early. Maybe I should have waited and spoken to her first.


    “Why is she here, Damon?”


    I only prayed that the next thing that came out of my mouth didn’t destroy us even further.