Dark Desire: A Billionaire Celebrity Saga by John Caelan

Author:John, Caelan [John, Caelan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-01T18:30:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

KALEB

I walk around backstage with Marcel, one of my junior designers at my heel, trying to fix every problem that comes my way. If it’s not a loose stitch, it’s a heel that doesn’t fit a model. If some garment fit the day before, now it’s too tight. I feel like I’m putting out fires all over the place, but this is what fashion week entails. It’s always chaos backstage, especially since my show starts in one hour.

Just as I’m leaning down, hand sewing the skirt of one of my spring looks while a model wears it, Adriana comes up to me.

“He’s gone,” she says.

I turn to her, holding the needle and thread. “Who’s gone?”

“Edwin,” she says hastily. “I saw him leaving just a second ago. He abandoned his post up front, putting the models in line, and left out the back exit. Did you two have a fight or something?”

My mind races to think why Edwin would have left. He and I are on good terms, I think. What would have made him leave?

At exactly that moment I see Blake walking around backstage. I remember our last conversation, how he asked me to be with him again and I refused. Now, his eyes meet mine and they’re full of something. Is that malice? I instantly know that he had something to do with Edwin’s departure.

“Adriana, can you take over for me?” I ask quickly, handing her my sewing supplies. Then, I race towards the back door.

“I can’t sew!” she yells back at me, but I don’t care. All I can focus on is finding Edwin.

I leave the venue, entering the streets of New York. There are throes of people trying to get into fashion week, so it’s hard to find Edwin. It’s like looking for a needle in a damn haystack. I look everywhere but don’t see him.

Fuck.

What did Blake say to him?

Walking fast, I look into all the shop windows and the cafes trying to find where he’s gone. He can’t have gotten far.

Then, I see him, standing at the distant street corner, waiting to cross.

Yes.

I run to him.

“Edwin!” I yell.

He turns to look at me, but walks across the street as the light changes. I follow him until I eventually catch up to him.

“I’m sorry about that,” I say. “I’m sorry about Blake.”

“How do you know what happened?” he asks, looking at me.

His eyes seem dejected, like he’s had all the happiness in the world ejected from his body. I hate that I have anything to do with that. There’s only one thing I care about lately and that’s making Edwin happy.

“I saw Blake inside and so I figured that was why you left. Adriana told me that she saw you leave.” We reach the opposite street corner as I stop him in his tracks. “Please, talk to me. What the fuck did Blake say to you?”

Edwin looks down at the ground, to the side, anywhere but at my eyes.

“It was him,” he says at last. “Blake, your ex-boyfriend, came to talk to me.

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