“I would have known the fucking difference,” my husband snaps.
“But—”
“Christ,” Saint hisses.
“And then when Eve came to me, denying we’d slept together, I knew something else was going on, and I had to figure it out,” Adam says.
“So we didn’t have sex?” I ask, hopeful.
He shakes his head. “No. It was your sister. The picture didn’t make sense. How Isabella got it in the first place to give to Haidyn for blackmail. Ididn’t have any cameras set up in my hotel room. Your sister had to set it up when I was making us a drink or undressing…I’m not sure. The point is, she put that phone there to record and sent it to Isabella, who then took a picture from it to use against Haidyn. Your sister was following you, and it led her to me. I’m not sure if that was their plan, but it ended up working in Isabella’s favor.”
“Wait.” Haidyn holds up his hand. “What picture?”
Adam faces Haidyn. “When I was in Las Vegas following Ashtyn, Isabella showed you a picture?—”
“The girl tied to your bed?” He tilts his head to the side.
“Yes.”
Haidyn looks at me. “That…that was you?”
“No,” Kashton snaps. “Well, her twin.”
My brother rubs the back of his neck. “I didn’t know.”
“How…” I swallow. “How did she know so much about me, but I didn’t know she existed?”
“Your father separated you at a very young age.”
I turn to see someone new join our conversation. Bill emerges from the hallway, dragging a woman with him. He pushes her to her knees in the middle of the room, and I take a step back, not wanting to be anywhere near her. “Vivian knew so much about you because she was raised by LeAnne.” He yanks on the woman’s hair, pulling her head back, and she bares her teeth. “Tell them, Isabella. Tell them everythingyouknow.”
She begins to laugh, and I see Charlotte move to stand in the far corner of the room. Haidyn follows to stand in front of his pregnant wife.
Isabella has her hands cuffed behind her back, but that doesn’t mean she won’t try to use her body to take one of us down. The woman is as evil as they come.
“Pathetic.” Bill shoves her to the concrete, face down, and kicks her onto her back. “LeAnne took you two in and raised you until you were two.”
I wrap my arms around myself, so confused. My first memories are of this hell. I was around five. Anything before that doesn’t exist.
Bill pushes his boot into her chest, and her shrill scream fills the room, making me flinch. She kicks and bucks, but he just presses more weight onto her naked body to hold her down. “Garrett didn’t want one girl, let alone two. He wanted boys. When he got girls, he was going to sell you both. But LeAnne convinced him that one of them would be good to use.” His eyes meet mine, and I swallow nervously. “She kept one, and he could have the other. A woman who’d come from a founder and a Spade brother…he could charge as much as he wanted.”
I wonder what he means by that, because that’s exactly what Ashtyn is, and I don’t see anyone trying to sell her. But she’s the last person I want to talk about, so I keep my mouth shut.
“Why not sell themboth?” Haidyn asks.
“He did,” Bill answers. “But he didn’t sell Eve until she was older.”
I bow my head, not wanting all of my husband’s friends to know my past. I’m not sure how much he’s shared with them about me, and I honestly would rather not know.
“Garrett sold her to Isabella.”
I look up through my lashes at Charlotte, and she frowns, meeting my stare. “My motherboughtyou?” She steps forward, but Haidyn stops her with a hand on her shoulder.
“She was an investment,” Bill states, and my breathing picks up. “Evan knew of Eve and wanted her at Dollhouse. When Haidyn didn’t kill her, Garrett figured his best bet was to sell her.”
Kashton reaches out to take my hand, but I pull it away and cross my arms over my chest.
“I never knew,” Charlotte whispers, still looking at me, tears pooling in her blue eyes.
