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sincerely to everyone who thought I had died.” Her eyes held the camera and I knew she was talking to me, hope in her eyes, sadness and despair in her expression. My throat hurt as I battled with the need to cry out, the scream in my gut trying to force itself free.
    “My agent gave me no idea of the hysteria back home. I am not excusing myself, but I am holding him responsible for this. He was alerted to my vacation and . . .”
    I blinked. Vacation? She was on her way to an audition. What the fuck?
    “So you simply took a vacation?” the woman asked.
    Faye stalled for a moment, her eyes flicking upwards to the corner of the screen as though she was looking at someone. “Yes.” I read the lie in her face and the stutter in her answer.
    “Just a vacation?”
    I frowned, growing irritated with the interviewer’s need for something juicy, and as much as I wanted to protect my girl from the questions, I also needed the answers. My heart was still beating too fast, my dick stirring as it always did at the sight of Faye. Her perfect legs were crossed at the knee with a small expanse of her creamy thighs on show. Her thick hair was piled on her head and it broke my heart to see her so . . . okay. I’d expected her to be at least a bit out of sorts. She had been kidnapped after all. But then I reminded myself that Faye had won The Best International Actress award three times in a row. She knew how to put on a performance and this is what it was . . . an act.
    “Well.” Her throat bobbed, nerves only I could recognize making her little finger twitch as she dug the nail into her thigh. “I uh, I came away with my fiancé. We wanted a bit of us time. We have been arranging our wedding.”
    My legs finally gave way, my hands snatching hold of the sofa to direct my shocked body onto it. Jenson was beside me in seconds, his arm sliding around my shoulder to comfort me. I flipped him off, pulling away from him. “Don’t . . .”
    “Oh!” the annoying bitch screeched on screen. “Oh, that is exciting.”
    The forced smile Faye gave made my gut settle. She was lying. I could see it. I knew every single one of her expressions, each of her little ways and all that her body language said.
    “I have seen your handsome fiancé who very much resembles your co-star and rumored lover, Cade Troy.”
    “They are twins.”
    “So, all this speculation that you are dating Cade Troy is due to the fact you’re engaged to a perfect replica.” The reporter cooed like she was the head bridesmaid out for the bachelorette night.
    Faye twisted in her seat, her eyes never leaving the figure off camera. “They are completely different people. Nothing alike apart from features.”
    “So why keep Dante Troy such a secret?”
    “He isn’t a secret. He is a well-established professional in his own right and field. Anyone who’s worth their media degree would know that if they didn’t assume and actually looked into my background. I think that’s enough questions for now.”
    “Can I just ask when the wedding will take place and where?”
    “Oh,” Faye shook her head quickly. “It will be a while . . .”
    “A couple of weeks!” a voice said from off camera.
    The TV screen exploded when I launched the remote at it. His voice, his fucking voice! How—fucking—dare—he—talk! I was going to kill him. Very slowly. Very painfully. With as much blood spill as possible. He was going to pay for this, and I would make sure it was my bare hands that did the deed.
    All eyes in the room were on me when I started to snatch things and shove them into a backpack, my rage only just bubbling below the surface. They all knew what I was capable of, what my demons were capable of, and each man was perceptively quiet.
    “You ready?” Frank asked. “I need to fix this bastard almost as much as you do.” The dark glaze that morphed his grey eyes into slick black orbs delighted my own darkness. This man was behind me one hundred percent. He knew