“Hey there Reno.” It was Gemma’s voice on the other end of his phone. “What’s up?”
“Have you heard from Trina?”
“Not since she left the restaurant. Why?”
“She’s not home and nobody’s heard from her.”
“Oh. She did . . .”
“She did what?” Reno asked her.
“She received a text message and then she did leave the restaurant in a bit of a hurry.”
“Did she say where she was going?”
“No. We assumed it had something to do with you. She said she’d call me later.”
“What time was that?”
“Around eight-ish.”
Reno’s face was unable to shield his concern. “Tell her ass to call me if you hear from her, Gem.”
“Will do.”
And Reno ended the call. Then he immediately began calling the clandestine security detail he kept on his wife.
“What’s wrong, Daddy?” asked Sophia. The fact that her father was looking worried made her began to get worried too. “What did Aunt Gemma say?”
“She hasn’t heard from her either,” Reno said.
But he couldn’t get any response from Trina’s onsite detail chief. He phoned again. Same result. Then he pulled up her location via the GPS on his phone. And he frowned. “What the fuck is she doing at a place like that?”
“What is it, Daddy?”
“Why would she be at a place like that?”
“A place like what?” Sophia was asking, but her father was already hurrying out of her room.
“Daddy, a place like what?Daddy?!”
“Check on Carmine!” Reno yelled back as he hurried down the hall, and then out of the penthouse altogether.
CHAPTER FOUR
Trina looked at the man that sat beside her on the bed. He was better looking than Reno. Younger. More athletic. A man who listened to her and didn’t judge her. Who never flew off the handle over every little thing. Who treated everybody as if they were the most important person in the world to him. He was everything Reno was not. It should have been the easiest decision of her life. But it wasn’t. Not for her. Not even for him. They both were upset, although she was wiping tears away.
“I didn’t come all this way for this, Trina. We can’t keep doing this. He should be able to understand.”
“But he won’t,” Trina shot back. “And I know I shouldn’t care after all the shit he’s pulled, but I do care. I didn’t want it to come to this, Von. I never wanted it to come to this.”
“It’s been going on too long. You’ve got to tell him the truth, Tree. There’s no two ways about it. You’ve got to tell him.”
“I know what I got to do,” Trina snapped. “You don’t have to tell me what I got to do. You’re making it sound like it’s the easiest thing in the world, but it’s not.”
“It’s not easy. I know it’s not easy. But we can’t keep going on this way. Don’t you understand that?Ican’t keep going on this way. This shit killing me too! I’m involved in this too. You’ve got to tell him, Tree. You’ve got to.”
Her tears intensified. She grabbed for more Kleenex tissues from the box on the nightstand, but they were too thin. She got up to go into the bathroom where the real tissue was.
