The Fidelity World: Invictus (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Kylie Hillman

Author:Kylie Hillman [Hillman, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

Ida

“Marta!” I shout as I slam our front door shut behind me. Tossing my handbag and coat on the arm chair, I kick off my heels and head for the kitchen. By the time, Marta joins me, I’ve already taken a bottle of wine from the fridge and gotten two wine glasses down from the cabinet.

“What’s wrong,” she questions. She tilts her head in the direction of our balcony. “On second thought, let’s sit outside and you can tell me all about it.”

Once we’re set up on our sun lounges, with the bottle of wine on the little, glass table between and a glass of wine in our hands, I find myself speechless. Unable to determine where I should begin, I take a huge sip, then lean my head back against the soft, canvas cushion of my seat. Looking at the dark, night-time sky, I let out a huge sigh.

“Alrighty, spill lady,” Marta demands. “You were excited when you left for this dinner. Who’s ruined your vibe already?”

“Felix King.”

Marta drains her glass before she pours herself another. “Yeah, you’re going to have to expand your answer. I have no idea who he is.”

“Perfection is what he is,” I say with another sigh. “Tall, dark, handsome, foreign perfection.”

“I’m not detecting a problem, yet,” Marta quips. “Seems to me like you should still be at dinner, not sitting here sighing like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders while you drink all my wine.”

Holding my glass out to her, I make a toast when she clinks her glass against mine. “To a weightless world.”

Marta starts laughing. “You’re an idiot. Just tell me what’s happening.”

“It’s complicated and I don’t know how to explain it to you. I mean, you know how tight Infidelity’s rules are?” I ask.

She nods. “Well, der. I’m your sponsor.”

“Well, since it concerns Infidelity, I can’t really give you details.”

“Then give me the hypothetical version. It’s not rocket science, lady.”

Being on the receiving end of Marta’s snark is making me feel better already. The way I felt at the restaurant is finally fading into the background, and I’m starting to feel like an idiot for the way I behaved.

Sucking in a deep breath, I start from the beginning—from the call I received to meet my new Infidelity client at the restaurant tonight. It takes me a few minutes to get to the part that I’m most embarrassed about. So far, Marta has been silent, although the judgment on her face has been getting harder to ignore.

“So, I watched him sign the contract,” I say, quickly. “And I was ready to sign as well, until it hit me that if I do, I’m basically signing away any chance that we had. The connection we felt this morning was real, adding money into the equation makes it a transaction and turns our relationship into a commodity. I didn’t think I could do that, so I told him that I was sorry and I walked out.”

“You just left him alone at the restaurant?” Marta asks.

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