"It wasn't my fault," she stuttered. "She was trying to trick you. I had to remind her of where she stood. I had to tell that bitch—"
"Watch your mouth," I hissed.
How dare she speak of Cassie like that.
I gripped her shoulders even firmer, trying so fucking hard notto hurt her, because a man should never hit a woman. "What the fuck did you do to her? How did you meet her?"
Josephine's tears dropped onto her cheeks. But then she glared at me, as if she couldn't accept the fact that I would hurt her because of another woman.
"She's a snake," Josephine bit out. "She was trying to manipulate you. She was trying to trick you to marry her. For God's sake, just because she was pregnant—"
"Pregnant?" My voice was shaking. My world seemed to stop.
"Yes, she was fucking pregnant," Josephine spat, her eyes murderous. Disgust skated all over her face. "I couldn't just let her barge into our life just like that. She disgusted me."
I was stunned. What the hell was Josephine talking about?
Cassie was pregnant? She was carrying my child?
My blood rushed to every vein in my body. No, she couldn't have possibly been...
But there had indeed been one time that we had sex without protection. I still remembered that I'd pulled out, but...
Fuck. We knew for a fact that it hadn't been completely safe. I might not have pulled outin time. It was Cassie that I'd rammed into—I should have expected that I couldn't control my fucking dick.
Oh, God.
"What happened to her?" I hissed again at Josephine, my fist shaking with rage. "How the fuck did you two even meet in the first place?"
She cried, as if seeing me treating her like this broke her heart. And there was nothing I wanted more than to shred her into pieces.
"I don't know." Her voice was a weak whisper. "She was the one who came here, and you were out of town because of a business meeting. We talked, and I left her at the coffee shop."
"What did you say to her?" I hollered again, startling her. I panted. This shit fucking hurt.
Knowing that Cassie was pregnant with my child and had comeall the way here years ago only to be crushed by this bitch in front of me made me want to destroy everything.
Maybe I really deserved to be in hell.
Josephine's lips trembled. "You wouldn't hurt me, Luke." But the look in her eyes told me otherwise. She knew that she didn't even believe her own words. "You wouldn't destroy me."
I stared into her with so much coldness—I could even feel that my heart was already frozen.
There was only fury and resentment in my voice as I said the words to her, slowly and clearly, "Trust me, Josephine. I will fucking ruin you so badly that you’ll wish you never knew me."
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After finding out about Cassie trying to find me five years ago, and that she'd been pregnant with my child, I noticed that something was odd.
I'd been trying to dig up more information about her—I had some connections in the media industry, and I'd hired people to obtain confidential information—but I hadn't found anything about our child.
Cassie had never spoken in public about having a child, nor had she spoken about that to her close friends.
This was strange. There was no trace of our child. She must have hidden our child from the rest of the world, but even I couldn't figure it out.
Cassie was always in the spotlight, and it was hard to approach her without drawing attention from reporters.
I didn't care about that as long as we could be together, but with my family still crumbling and the probability that Cassie might not even want to see me anymore after hearing Josephine's lies, I had to be careful.
