The Blue Room Vol. 4 (The Blue Room Serie) by Gow Kailin

Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Kailin Romance, theEDGEbooks.com
Published: 2014-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

I try to process everything that I've heard. But the thoughts in my head are overwhelming. I sit down in the silk-upholstered armchair in my hotel room, trying to take everything in. I have so many questions I don't even know where to start. How can Mr. X. not be the Mr. X.? He talked about Roz, didn't he? Not a lot, to be sure – maybe even less than you'd expect from someone who had just lost a woman that he loved – but he'd definitely mentioned her. Not to mention Rita. What was Rita doing calling him if he weren't Mr. X., her lover? Mr. X. who had bought her that beautiful locket?

I have to admit – there's a small part of me that's relieved. Whomever it is I'm sleeping with, whomever it is that I'm falling for, I'm not sharing a man with my best friend. I haven't betrayed Rita by going to bed with the man that she was crazy about.

But then what am I doing here?

I'd been so close, I think, as bitter tears fall slowly down my cheeks, nestling at my lips. I'd thought for a brief second that I had her. That I was close to solving the mystery of her disappearance. But now I realize I'm further from the truth than ever.

She's alive. I know that much.

Or I think I do.

I'd heard her voice say “Hello?” on the other end. “Hello,” that was all she'd said. But it was her. Unmistakably so. I could recognize her voice.

But she isn't at the Golden Canyon. She isn't working there. She isn't an addict. She's a mystery, a ghost, an echo of a name that was once spoken so often on my lips. And Mr. X. – he isn't Mr. X., either. He's a liar.

I feel the pang so sharply.

He lied to me about Roz. But why.

All that he'd said about losing the women that he loved. I thought at first he'd been talking about Roz, about the pain he'd experienced losing her. But now I wonder – is that even him? Was that all an act? That story about his wife – killed on her wedding day – was that a lie, too?

I feel sick to my stomach as I realize the truth.

I can trust nothing about him.

I can't trust my own heart. My own instincts.

Nothing.

I stand up straight and decide on what I'm going to do next. I'm going to go to Terrence's office, I decide. Directly. No distraction No sex. No nothing. I'm going to confront him about what I know. About the fact that he's set me out as a trap, as bait, put me in danger, about how he's let me think that I'm sleeping with Roz's Mr. X. when I'm actually sleeping with a total stranger.

Then the truth hits me. He's a total stranger either way.

I've developed a whole fantasy life with Mr. X. Done what Roz did, what Rita did. Gotten lost in the fantasy, the ideal, the beauty of pretend.

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