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“Fuck you. That all?”
“It had to h...
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“No, it didn’t. Leave me the fuck alone. I don’t ever want...
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“Cece...
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“Fuck you, Dominic. And your sick fucking games. I’m out. T...
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“You know we didn’t mean it.”
“I don’t know shit. But I’m done with you, with both of you.”
“I wish that wa...
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“We had our reasons.”
“Did you? Good for you. Guess what? I don’t care.”
“You do fucking care. You bel...
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“I told you to stay away, and now you’re in it. What happened that night doesn’t matter.”
“Maybe to you.”
“What happened before...
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“Then fucking stop it,” he snaps. “Stop.”
“You’ve come a long way.”
“Is that supposed to be a compliment?”
“You,” he darts his tongue out and licks along my bottom lip. My breath catches as he presses his length along my stomach. “You’re what’s wrong with everything and now…” he shakes his head, “you can’t come between us.”
“Fucking stop it,” he snaps. “I’m trying to explain.”
“I’m sorry. That’s the only real thing I can give you.”
“We were trying to make a point, and we fucking failed miserably.”
“You ruined everything,” I’m unable to keep a lone tear from slipping. “I’ll never look at you the same.”
“I have to let you go for now,” ...
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“But I don’t fucking ...
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“I don’t have a choice. But everything I do now, it’s for you.”
“Baby, please look at me.”
“Baby, please, please look at me.”
“Cecelia, you are the secret.”
WHAT?!?!?! I just can’t. How?!?
This confession demands my attention, and I finally look up. He looks destroyed, his complexion gaunt, dark circles prominent beneath his eyes. I’ve never seen him so distraught. Empathy wins the war with my silent tongue. I love this man, even if falling for him was a mistake.
“What in the hell is ...
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“We didn’t mean it. You have to...
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“I don’t know anything.”
“You know a lot more than you think you do. But the first thing you need to know was that it was a knee-jerk decision to bring you in the day we met, but I just fucking couldn’t… God, the moment I laid eyes on you—”
“Why am I the ...
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“We didn’t mean it, Cecelia.”
“Just tell me why you brought me in here.”
“Okay.” He nods solemn...
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Years ago, when Horner Technologies was mainly a chemical plant, two immigrants from France, a husband and wife, died in ...
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“Dominic’s parents?” He nods.
“They’d fled from France in an attempt to escape her ex-husband, and because they were so desperate, they accepted an invitation from an estranged relative to start a new life here.”
“So they came here, to this town, to work in this plant thinking they would be safer, that here they would thrive, start living the American dream and all that entailed. Instead, they were exploited by this company and its owner because of their social disadvantage and eventually perished in a fire no one is sure was accidental. We still haven’t pieced together exactly what happened, but it was fucked
up and reeked of foul play from the way it was handled afterward. Your father covered it up, swept it under the rug. He did the bare minimum for Dominic and offered nothing but a formal letterhead addressed apology included in the settlement summary. A slap in the face after the fact, especially with the CEO being a local. The local news didn’t even cover it, Cecelia. There was nothing in the papers, either.”
Something happened that night, and he buried it. And we’re determined to find out what.”
“You’re saying my dad may have covered up a murder, two murders, here, at this plant?”
“Not sure, but Dom’s parents weren’t the first to ever question your father’s business practices. Your father has been pulling a lot of shit for a very,...
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“So, you’re spying on him? Working here to find...
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“You’re going to hurt him?”
“We’re going to make him suffer. For everything he’s done and everything he took from Dom, and from every other family who’s worked for him since he opened this fucking plant. That’s why you need to stay away from us. You can’t be implicated in anything that goes down. It’s not safe.”
“What are you goin...
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“If we wanted him dead, he would be. That’s n...
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