Denial by Mac Sadie

Author:Mac, Sadie
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2023-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

I let the doors fall closed behind me as I tried to shove my arms into the jacket. The night air felt sharp with frost, like razors in my throat.

I hadn’t even tried to explain. How could I?

My feet slipped a little on the compacted path of snow that wound from the restaurant back up through the forest.

“You get back here!” The force of the hand on my shoulder whipped me around.

Gilly gripped hold and shook me roughly.

“Tell me what is going on?” She pushed me back and forth like a ragdoll. “What the hell was that on my eight-year-olds iPad? What did it mean by taking bookings and what has it got to do with Annabelle?”

In the background Harry had appeared, he scanned the scene and hurried towards us.

“Let go of her.” He spoke quietly but pushed his sister away.

“What the hell is going on? Taking bookings? What does that even mean?” Gilly bent over, hands against her knees drawing in a long breath as she stared at me.

“It means what you think it means.” Harry sighed tiredly.

“Can you believe this?” She hissed. “Your wife is some kind of weirdo prostitute and you aren’t even slightly angry!”

Harry nodded silently.

“You aren’t shocked?” Gilly looked outraged. “He knew.” My voice sounded broken, scratchy and rough.

“Of course he did!” She laughed sarcastically.

Harry looked up tilting his head back and closing his eyes as he took a shuddering breath.

“It’s how we met.” He sighed. “I hired Ivy for a work function.”

His sister was now gawping between us, her face quivering with rage.

“You’re sick!” She spat. “You bring this type of person into our family around my kids?”

“She isn’t a criminal Gilly. It was a job!” Harry bristled.

“What about my daughter?” Gilly ignored him completely and pressed herself closer to me again.

“Did you touch my daughter?” She recoiled a little as she waited for my response.

“She called the ad. I didn’t know who she was, I just got the booking.” I spoke quickly, avoiding the probing eyes of my husband.

“She told the agency she was twenty-five and that her name was Shannon. I met her, but nothing happened. I told her it wasn’t right.”

“Annabelle would never call some kind of escorting service. She’s nineteen years old! She doesn’t know about things like that and she isn’t a freak! She doesn’t even know what gay is!” Gilly was shouting now.

“Your reaction is exactly why she called an agency instead of just allowing herself to be who she wants to be.” I snapped back.

“You are disgusting! People like you make me sick.” Gilly shouted, her face shaking with rage. “It’s not normal!”

“Normal?” I laughed. “None of us are ‘normal’.”

“Perverse then!” She growled.

“And that is why your own daughter didn’t feel safe enough to tell you that she is attracted to women!” I shouted.

The slap echoed through the trees.

I hadn’t seen it coming but I felt Gilly’s hand connect with the side of my face.

“For God’s sake!” Harry was wrestling his sister away from me.

My cheek was burning as I straightened up and pushed the strands of hair back from my eyes.

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