his eyes reddened with rage. Just as he stepped on the packed dais, the music stopped.
The man wrapped his wife in his arms and kissed her neck.
“Get your hands off my wife!” Kyle ground out through clenched teeth. It took great will power not to throw a few punches.
Oh Rev. Jones, I need strength to face this hour, Kyle mused .
Eleven
An hour later, Alero faced her husband in her lounge. She had wrestled with a hard decision. Zane had found it tough to let her get away from the club. Kyle and Zane argued for fifteen minutes, none willing to leave without her. Right now, Kyle nursed a nose bleed. Outside the club, he had broken down, wept and apologized for letting her go. After sniffing for a long while, blood trickled from his nose.
It was only after the owner of the nightclub intervened, reasoned with three of them, she agreed to speak to her husband alone.
Alero folded her arms across her chest. “You’re wasting your precious time Kyle. Our marriage is dead and I attended the funeral in London. As usual, you were absent, but it didn’t stop the proceedings. So, move on. I have done the same.”
Kyle’s handsome face was fiery red in a flash, and his eyes shot daggers at her. “Can I have an ice pack for my nose, please?”
Even her hardened heart took pity on him. His shirt collar hung askew. She retrieved an ice pack from the freezer and gave it to him, avoiding his gorgeous angry eyes. There was no point staring at his exotic features. He could wrap her round his handsome face anytime he liked. But she was over his charm.
“What were you doing dancing like a whore with another man, Alero? You’re my wife. It was disgusting, and definitely a forbidden dance in your own culture.”
“What a great starting point. You call it a forbidden dance . I call it having a good time with someone who cares about me. You would know what a whoring dance is, because you keep a chain of whores for your pleasure.” She delivered her blow with a what-can-you-do expression.
He ground his teeth. “Stop shoving it in my face. I saw it all. It hurts, babe.”
She chuckled. “I think you’re speaking to the wrong woman, Kyle. Who’s your babe ? You must be mistaken. Your lover had a child for you a year into our marriage. So what? You had an affair three months after you gave me the most expensive wedding rings in England.”
His eyes travelled straight to her fingers. “Your rings are gone.”
She splayed out her bare fingers. “I threw them in the drain where they belong.”
Her husband flinched. “You didn’t have to do that, Alero. I screwed things up pretty bad. But it is not over with us.”
A bitter grin spread across her face. “ Us ? There has been no us for a long time. I sat in your empty house in the hope you’ll come to your senses, instead, you brought in your illegitimate son to mock my isolated existence.”
“That wasn’t my doing, Alero. Please listen to me.” She left him standing in the lounge, while she breezed into the living area. Even now, her heart bled a little.
Kyle followed her.
“I didn’t know she had a son until I returned from LA. I wasn’t hiding the fact from you. My father erred. He shouldn’t have brought him to our home.”
Oh, she needed a stiff drink. But Zane had cleared every bottle of alcohol from her home when they started dating, insisting they limit drinking alcohol to social events. So she poured herself a glass of lemonade.
Kyle got out a glass from the cupboard and filled a glass for himself.
Alero glanced at her husband. He still looked as ravishing as she remembered. With his tanned, muscled physique that charmed off her panties, a gleaming smile, hooded exotic grey eyes and an easy going attitude, she had given in to him with no idea of what the future portended. But now, her heart toughened against his great looks. Zane was hot too, and he treated her better.
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