Chapter 260

• "I needed Charles to come and take you away before you ruined my life!" Swinging around to face her, Adelina let Charley see the pained tears in her eyes. ‘He was going to do it too,’ she said thickly, ‘the very next morning after that—fiasco—when I caught you and Dami together on the terrace. I saw your face, Charley! I knew what you’d been doing!
• With the cringing guilt of that incident coming back to haunt her, Charley opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out.
• Adelina gave her a scathing look. "I got you away from there as quickly as I could," she went on. "Your brother wanted to go to your room then and there and drag you home by the scruff of your traitorous neck, but it was already too late." Her voice broke down into a choke. Dami arrived only minutes after we got back to the hotel. She cried. "He told me it was over—right there in front of my cousin Estelio and your brother, Charley!" "He finished it between us, and I have never been so humiliated in all of my life!"