Seduced By You: A Fake Relationship Billionaire Romance (The Kingcaid Billionaires Book 5) by Tracie Delaney

Author:Tracie Delaney [Delaney, Tracie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Firefly Publishing Limited
Published: 2023-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Leesa

Ever felt as if you’re the ball

in a pinball machine?

“Would you rather I checked into a hotel tonight?”

I whipped my head around so fast I pulled a muscle in my neck. Massaging it, I glared at Kadon. If he asked such a stupid question again, I’d clip him around the ear. Or pull out his pubic hairs with tweezers. “Of course not. Why would you think that?”

He hitched a shoulder. “I killed someone, Lee. I wouldn’t blame you if you called it quits and I never saw you again.”

“Oh my God. Really, Kadon? Is that the kind of person you think I am?” I narrowed my eyes and crossed my arms.

He kept his gaze averted, and what I saw broke my heart. My happy-go-lucky, kind and generous, surfer-loving best friend was a shell of his former self. He looked… devastated. Destroyed. At the end of a tether pulled taut for too long. What had happened to him was so huge I couldn’t even empathize. I could try, but I couldn’t feel what he was feeling. What I could do, though, was stop him from falling any further into a pit of despair and give him a good old-fashioned shake.

“Get ready for some tough love.” I counted each point on my fingers. “One, stop with the self-pity. It doesn’t suit you.”

He drew his head back quickly, but I continued.

“Two, I’d like to think I’m not that shallow. Friends stick by friends when times are tough, and if they don’t, then they weren’t friends at all. And three,” I tapped the third finger. “Accidents happen. I know I’ve already said that, but it’s worth repeating.” I turned sideways, crossing my legs yoga-style, and drew his hands into my lap. “I can’t even imagine the kind of scars an experience like that causes, but I believe internal scars heal like external ones do. The thing is, Kadon, healing starts with forgiving ourselves, and you…” I looked him squarely in the eye. “You’re not there, are you?”

“No.” He rubbed his lips together. “I’m not sure I ever will be.”

“Not with that attitude you won’t.” I hadn’t a clue whether I was making things any better by being so blunt. I wasn’t a therapist. I could make things ten times worse. But Kadon and I had always been into straight talking. He’d given me more than my fair share of tough-love speeches in the first few months after Benedict had dumped me. Now it was my turn to do the same for him.

“Tell it like you see it, Lee.”

I risked a grin. “You know me.”

“Yeah. I do.” His eyes glazed over, his attention somewhere behind me, although I doubted he was looking at anything in this room. I’d wager that he was back there, in Switzerland, on the night it had happened.

“Kadon.” I stroked his face, his stubble rough beneath my fingertips. “Why don’t you get some rest? You look exhausted.”

“How does Benedict know?” His brow furrowed. “The only people who know what happened

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