Chapter 20

Sasha

Kirk was staring at me with wide startled eyes. I swallowed past the large lump that formed in my throat. Pain from the past poured through my heart as I remembered him coming at me with those vicious hate-glazed eyes. I was trying to move, to do something, but I was glued to the spot.

"Sasha?" he asked, like he didn't recognise me, the fucker.

Dexter began to shift next to me and his eyes took in Kirk. My ex-boyfriend had short brown hair and he was wearing a suit. He looked sophisticated and it seemed that after a year, life was treating him pretty well. This wasn't fair and I wanted to vanish. I grabbed Dexter's elbow. Panic was invading me quickly like an unexpected avalanche, washing over my body, threatening to suffocate me. Dark thoughts began rippling through me as I stared at the man I had been in love with for years. It had taken him only a second to betray me.

"We need to take the stairs, right now," I hissed.