Secrets and Lies by Amanda Young
Author:Amanda Young [Young, Amanda]
Language: nld
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 29
Dalilah
I was on pins and needles, waiting for Luke to return. He said that he had gone off to his studio to do some work, but I had my suspicions about that. He was acting awfully strangely, and I prayed that he didn’t go and see Nottingham. I had no idea how Nottingham would react. Something told me that he probably wouldn’t take too kindly to seeing Luke.
I already knew that Luke was being blackballed. He didn’t say as much, but, when he thought that I was sleeping, I was really trying to listen to what he was doing. I hated being nosy like that, and I really just wanted to have open communication with him again, like we used to. But I just couldn’t tell him the truth. I was trying to think of a million and one ways that somehow he wouldn’t end up making things worse with Nottingham by confronting him, but I knew that wasn’t possible.
All of this was why I was still covering up what really happened, and why I was kicking myself, internally, every day, for putting Luke in the middle of the drama. He didn’t belong in the middle of the drama. It wasn’t fair to him, yet I had a feeling that he was paying for all of my sins anyhow. Which was why I was anxiously listening in whenever he called some of the contacts that he met at the premiere. I heard him make call after call, and I knew that these people weren’t calling him back.
My heart broke for him. If I could change everything about what I did the night of his premiere, I would have. If I could have gone back in time, I would have behaved myself at the premiere and would have silently gone back with Nottingham. I would have kept my feelings and heartbreak to myself, and I never would have let Luke in on how I was really feeling.
But I didn’t. I went with my heart and my emotions, instead of my head, and I involved Luke in all of this. And now look. Just as I thought, his career was over as soon as it began. He had the most stellar premiere imaginable. Everyone was talking about him. Now, once again, it seemed that he couldn’t get arrested.
I was so naïve to ever think that Nottingham’s tentacles wouldn’t reach, because they clearly did. And, really, it made a lot of sense that Nottingham would be successful in killing Luke’s career. After all, Nottingham was the main person who arranged the entire party. All of those people at that premiere were connected to him in some way. And Nottingham was extremely established in the art world. He knew everybody that was anybody, and everybody else as well. If he wanted to stop Luke’s momentum, then he had the power to do so.
He killed Luke’s career in its proverbial cradle, and I felt like screaming in frustration. Everything I did – marrying that awful man, letting him touch me sexually night after night – was for nothing.
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