All Chapters of Two Can Play: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

JULIAN I could not believe my eyes.Standing on that stage, under those lights, was my wife. My Celeste. Dressed like she was going to a whore's ball instead of a charity gala. That red dress barely covered her breasts. The slit went all the way up to her thigh. Every man in that room was looking at her. I saw their eyes. I saw the way they devoured her with their gazes.And she was smiling. She was lapping it up.I tried to get to her. I pushed through the crowd, but those bodyguards blocked my path like I was nobody. Like I was just another face in the crowd. I was her husband. I had every right to be on that stage with her.But she was gone before I could reach her. Disappeared like smoke.I searched everywhere. I called her phone. Straight to voicemail. I sent messages. Where are you? Are you okay? Please call me. Nothing. I paid the hotel staff to look for her. I checked the security footage myself. The cameras showed her walking on stage. After that, nothing. Like she had vanis

CELESTE I walked through the front door and the smell hit me before anything else. Sex. Sweat. The kind of thick, used air that comes from bodies that have been tangled together. I knew that smell. I had come home to it many times before, back when I was still stupid enough to trust Julian. I looked at Seraphine sitting on my sofa, and I looked at Julian standing near the kitchen doorway with that fake concern on his face, and I knew exactly what they had been doing while I was gone. The thought should have burned. It didn't. It just sat there in my chest, cold and still, like a stone I had swallowed a long time ago and finally stopped choking on. Hearing Julian talk about fidelity, I resisted the urge to slap him. Just entering the house, taking one look at Sera with her smeared lipstick and the smell of sex all over this room, I knew they had just finished. Probably right on my couch. Maybe against the wall. Maybe in my bed. It didn't matter anymore. Nothing they did could