Chapter 41

• “Fuck!” Jadon bellowed as he threw the phone across the office. It landed with a thud on the carpeted floor just short of meeting its doom with the glass. Not that he would have cared if it broke into a million pieces. The phone was a cheap burner he had bought to get in touch with Tapiwa since she had blocked his number.
• A hysterical laugh burst out of his mouth, shaking his shoulders. Jadon couldn’t believe what they had feared had actually happened. He knew he should have been prepared for it when he refused to do the blackmailer’s bidding, but damn, maybe some part of him had thought it actually wouldn’t come down to this.
• And the icing on the cake? Tapiwa blamed him for everything. Maybe she needed a scapegoat she could blame and hate, but that wasn’t helping either of them in their current predicament.