The Wolf (Billionaire Vikings Book 2) by S.M. Maddox

Author:S.M. Maddox [Maddox, S.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Jessie

“I got furious. I went to the new producer, the head of WFYR, anyone who would listen and told them I was going to do this big expose on the mafia infiltration. They’d ruined my life, and I was damn near going to make them uncomfortable in theirs.

“Obviously the network heads shut me down fast, they didn’t want to end up murdered for allowing such a thing to happen. My new producer was a little more sympathetic, surprisingly. He insisted that I submit newspaper columns anonymously, as if I were scared of what they’d do to me. I wasn’t, I had nothing to lose any more except Otis.”

“What about your parents?”

“My parents are dead. My mom died in high school, on the day of homecoming. My dad died a few years later when I was in college. Like I said, no one but Otis.”

I looked over at Otis sleeping in his dog bed. He’d barely moved all day, poor thing. I guessed he was exhausted from the excitement of having company over.

“It didn’t take too long for the Marchese’s to figure out they’d messed with the wrong chick. I thought they’d be afraid of me, of my celebrity status. I was wrong.

“A week later, as I waited to the elevator to land at my studio’s floor, I was met immediately by the heads of WFYR. They basically fired me on the spot, no severance package or anything, on the grounds that I’d violated some bullshit confidentiality clause with Jason, who wasn’t even a real person. I went to a bar and got myself super drunk. Bad decision, I know. I didn’t care at that point. The bartender shut me down at 3 am, after I couldn’t even tell him my own name. I only know this because he’s the one who found me later and recounted the events of the night that I couldn’t remember.

“The part I do remember, I wish I didn’t. I left the bar and cut through the alleyway beside it. That alleyway you always scream at the people in movies not to cut through because obviously they’re fixing to die? Yeah, it was that one. I leaned over, bracing myself on the wall as I puked my guts out. It was lightly raining, so I didn’t hear footsteps behind me. Even if I had, I was so drunk they probably wouldn’t have registered anyway.

“As I was hurling for the third, or maybe fourth, time, someone walked up behind me and smashed my head into the brick wall. I remember the feel of blood pouring down my head, and my vision going blurry. I remember the smell, too. It was the smell of sickly-sweet, cheap ass cologne, the same kind Jason had always worn. It was nauseating then, and it was even more so now. Instinctively, I knew it was him doing this to me.

“I tried to scream, and he punched me in my stomach. I doubled over, trying a failing to catch my breath as his hand grabbed my throat.

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