Chapter 7
Archer forgot all about his pain, staring at me in complete shock.
“What the fuck did you just say?”
I answered with patience. “Didn’t your assistant already dig this up?”
“I gave your precious Leonel family heir to a couple in Africa.”
Archer was grinding his teeth so hard I thought they’d shatter. “Why the hell would you do that?”
I looked at him and smirked. “Take a wild guess.”
“You cheated on me, knocked up your side piece, then dumped the screaming brat on me while you two went off to play house, expecting me to be your fucking nanny?”
“What am I to you, Archer? Some kind of pathetic servant?”
“The only reason I tolerated your shit for so long was because your mom saved my life.”
“But you? Did you ever give a damn about me?”
“I’m telling you right now, Archer-everything you did to me and my son, I’m gonna take back from you with interest.”
Then I turned my attention to Hayley.
Her “unconscious” eyes twitched slightly. I laughed and kicked her in the stomach.
‘Drop the act, bitch. I know you’re awake.”
I crouched down and grabbed her chin, smiling coldly. “Want to live?”
Hayley’s eyes flew open and she nodded frantically.
slapped her hard across the face. “Then pull that fucking pillow out of your shirt.”
When Hayley pulled out a wad of cotton stuffing from under her clothes, Archer’s eyes went huge.
le nearly had a stroke. “You’ve been lying to me this whole time?”
But Hayley completely ignored him, slamming her forehead against the ground toward me.
Karen! Please spare me! I swear I didn’t mean for any of this! He’s the one who kept coming after me-I never seduced him!”
Archer completely lost his shit. “HAYLEY! You’re the one who seduced ME!”
You said you’d have a baby for me and Karen!”
le got more and more unhinged, even jumping up to kick Hayley in the face.
This is all your goddamn fault! If you hadn’t thrown yourself at me, Karen would never have gotten pissed! You fucking destroyed everything!”
settled back into the couch, leaning against William’s chest, watching these two beat the hell out of each other like it was dinner theater.
William casually peeled grapes for me.
But his voice was threatening. “Karen, do that again, I swear I’ll fuck you to death in bed next time.”
Then his eyes went red and his voice got all hurt. “Do you have any idea how scared I was when I couldn’t find you?”
“If you’d died, I would’ve made everyone in New York pay for it.”
I mentally groaned. William’s psycho possessive streak was getting worse by the day.
I quickly smoothed things over, pressing a gentle kiss to his jaw.
“I promise it’ll never happen again. From now on, you’re coming with me everywhere.”
William finally looked satisfied, then asked casually, “So what’s the plan for these two? Don’t tell me you’re going soft on this piece of shit.”
“If you’d let me handle them them years ago, you wouldn’t have gone through this shit.”
My eyes went cold. “Ship them to Africa. Let them have their family reunion.”
