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"Mama." I closed my eyes for a second. "It's too early for this. Can we not do this, please?"

She stared at me for a moment longer, and I braced myself for another round, but instead she just sighed and shook her head.

"Be careful," she said, before turning and walking back out of the room.

I looked at Armani, who just shrugged from the bed, already reaching for her phone again.

"I'm leaving," I said.

I grabbed my keys and walked out, still smelling like the yacht, the water, and him.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

I called Kaior thirty-two times since midnight. Text after text, watching each one show delivered, then read, with no response coming back at all. I paced the length of the living room for what felt like the hundredth time, phone gripped so tight in my hand I thought I might crack the screen.

"Where the fuck is she?" I muttered, dialing again.

Her phone went straight to voicemail.

"Kaior, pick up the damn phone." I hung up before the beep even finished, tossing the phone onto the couch, then immediately snatching it back up to check if she'd responded in the three seconds since I set it down. She hadn't.

I dropped onto the edge of the couch and ran both hands down my face, trying to calm the thoughts that refused to slow down. Kaior had never done anything like this before. She had never stayed out all night without at least answering a text or returning one of my calls. Now, after the text message she saw her ass disappeared without a single word.

"This can't be happening," I said to the empty room, standing back up, pacing again. "She wouldn't cheat on me."

But the thought wouldn't leave me alone. It was twisting tighter in my chest with every silent minute that passed. I didn't have a name, didn't have a face to put to it, just a gut feeling eating away at me that she wasn't alone.

Then my mind went somewhere I couldn't pull it back from. Just the thought of another man touching her, kissing her, fucking on her, making her cum and nutting in her, drove me crazy. The thought alone made me feel like I was losing my mind, as I paced around the living room like the motion could somehow outrun what was playing over and over in my head.

"She wouldn't," I said again, like saying it enough times might make it true. “Kaior loves me. She wouldn’t cheat on me.”

I grabbed my phone and called Talia instead, needing to hear somebody's voice. She didn't pick up either. Knowing her, she was probably still asleep with the baby, and even that small rejection sent something ugly twisting through my chest.

"Everybody just ignoring me today," I muttered, tossing my phone back onto the couch cushion.

I sat there another hour, staring at the front door like it might open on its own, replaying every version of what could be happening right now. Her laughing at something he said. Her letting him eat and beat my pussy.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew I didn't have much room to be this upset after everything I had been doing behind her back for months. But that thought didn't stick around for long. It was easy to ignore when the woman I loved might've been somewhere with another man, and the possibility of her being done with me suddenly felt a whole lot more real than anything I had been trying to hide.

Around ten in the morning, I finally heard the front door unlock. I shot up off the couch so fast I nearly knocked over the lamp beside me. I stood in the middle of the living room with my arms crossed, watching the door swing open.

Kaior walked in, dressed in a Gucci fit that I had never seen before, hair a mess, and looking more relaxed than I had seen her in weeks.

"Where the hell have you been?"

She didn't respond right away. Instead, she slipped off her shoes by the door like she had just got home from work, instead of staying out all night.

"Out."

"Out?" I laughed. "I called you thirty-two times, Kaior. And all you got is out?"

"I turned my phone off."

"Why?"

She finally looked at me. "Because I didn't want to hear from you."

"So that's it? You just disappear all night and don't say nothing?"