Forever After All: A Marriage of Convenience Novel by Catharina Maura

Author:Catharina Maura [Maura, Catharina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789887531968
Publisher: Ichara Publishing
Published: 2021-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Alexander

We’ve only just made it to the restaurant when Elena’s phone buzzes. She glances down at it, her eyes widening.

She looks up at me, a shimmer of panic in her eyes, and then she looks back down, hiding her phone away in a rush. Unease settles in my gut when she smiles tightly without meeting my eyes.

“I… I need to go. Something came up,” she says.

She smiles at my mother and then turns to walk away before I can even stop her.

“Elena,” I call, rushing after her. “Where are you going?”

She looks into my eyes and the guilt I see in them wrecks me. She’s hiding something from me. “Oh, it’s nothing. I just need to head back to the hospital real quick,” she says.

And then she blinks twice, her telltale sign. She’s lying.

She grabs my hand and smiles at me. “Go ahead and have lunch with your mother. I’ll see you later.”

She squeezes my hand, and then she walks away, flagging down a taxi as she goes. I stare after her, my heart uneasy.

I grab my phone and call my security team the second she steps in the taxi. “Tell me exactly who just texted my wife, and what the contents of that text were,” I order as soon as Aiden, my security officer, picks up.

“Yes, sir,” he says.

I pace on the pavement as I wait for him to retrieve the data. “Everything okay?” my mother asks. “Where did Elena go?”

I shake my head. “It’s nothing, Mom. Something came up, though. Can we reschedule?”

She frowns at me and nods, but I can tell she’s concerned. She’s been worried about us for a while now, and I’ve let my anger at Elena overwhelm my mother’s needs, her happiness. “Of course, Alec. I’ll have the driver pick me up.”

I smile at her and press a kiss to her cheek as she grabs her phone to call our driver.

“Mr. Kennedy,” Aiden says on the phone. “It appears the text message came from your brother. The contents were as follows: I need you, Elena. Now. Please meet me at this address,” he says. I wait for him to give me the address, a thousand thoughts whirling through my mind. What the fuck are they up to? An affair? After she swore to me that nothing was going on between them? I should have known better. I should have known the second I found out about the fucking lingerie bullshit.

Pure rage fills my every vein when I realize the address is a room in one of our hotels. My hands are shaking as I get behind the wheel. Each scenario that comes to mind is more painful than the last. It feels like Jennifer all over again. Finding her in the apartment I bought for her, Matthew on top of her. I was stupid to put my faith in Elena. To think that money could buy her loyalty.

I’m seeing white as I walk into the hotel lobby. The receptionist is visibly nervous to find me here in person without any prior notice, and she stares at me with wide eyes.

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