Indestructible Desire (26 page)

Climbing onto the bar stool beside him, I ask the bar tender for a jack and coke. Taking a long sip, I finally work up the courage to talk about Kayden. “Look I’m in love with Kayden. The whole story isn’t black and white. There are two sides to the story. She claims she slept with my fiancée, but he insists nothing happened.”

Taking a ringlet of my hair between his fingers, Shayne twists it while listening to everything I’m telling him. The music is so loud, I can barley hear myself think, let alone have a conversation. I have to lean in so close, that my lips almost touching his ear as I talk to him. I can’t help but breath in his delicious cologne.

Shaking my inappropriate thoughts away, I wait for Shayne to respond. After a few sips of his beer, he locks eyes with me. “So do you believe him? I think if you did, you’d be with him right now, and not here…sitting with me at the bar.”

God, I’m so tired of answering this question. I don’t know what the hell I feel. But everyone wants a cut and dry answer from me. I deciding to give him the answer that I feel deep down is the truth. “I believe him. I think she’s a lying little bitch who was edged on by her friend to sell this story. I honestly don’t think he would cheat on me.”

“Well then what are you doing here?”

There’s the million dollar question.
“I don’t know. I guess I’m scared that it could be true. Then I’ll look like the idiot who allowed her fiancée to cheat on her, and she just stayed by his side.”

“Savannah! Get your ass over here now! You gotta see this!” Brooklyn shouts at me running as fast as she can at me. Taking my hand, she pulls me off of the bar stool, dragging me up the stairs to the VIP section. Before I can ask what’s going on, we stop dead in our tracks.

“What the fuck!?” I spit out, as my eyes take in the disturbing image before me.

“That’s what I said!” Brooklyn says with disgust dripping from her words. Brooklyn lets go of my hand, and stomping across the VIP section. Snapping out of my state of shock, I quicken my strides to catch up to her. Before I can say anything to stop her, Brooklyn’s grabbing Giselle by the hair, and yanking her off of Logan’s lap.

“You nasty little slut!” She shouts before slapping Giselle across the face. Shoving her down onto the couch she whips her head towards Logan holding her hand in the air at him. “Don’t you fuckin’ move, unless you want to spend the next hour, fishin’ your balls outta your stomach!”

“Holy shit! What the fuck is going on?” Shayne asks finally catching up to us.

“That is the woman we think helped set the plan in motion, to set up Kayden to look like he cheated on me.” I say with venom pouring from my mouth. “Hold my drink, would ya?” Handing him my drink, I storm over to Giselle.

“Where’s your phone?!” I shout at her, jamming my finger into her chest.

“What?” She asks staring up at me with a dumb look on her face. Her perfectly styled hair is now disheveled. Miss prim and proper, is finally revealing her true deceitful and conniving self to the world.

“Do I need to spell it out for you? Get. Your. Phone! I want you to call your little friend Nadia, and tell her this charade ends now! I want her to tell me the truth, or so help me I’ll beat it the fuck outta her!”

“She’s…here…at Vertigo!” Giselle stumbles over her words, whipping her head around to look at the crowd of people now watching us. “The last time I saw her…she was heading to the ladies room.”

Stepping in front of me, Brooklyn tells her to get Nadia back up to VIP NOW! Because, we’re going to have a nice friendly chat with her. Finally clear this whole thing up.

Logan looks like he’s about ready to shit his pants. I don’t doubt he had a hand in all of this. Especially seeing him all cozy with Giselle. I think I puked a little in my mouth when I saw them kissing. Shivering as a cold chill travels up my spine, I can’t help but feel very dirty suddenly. I’m in desperate need of a long hot shower after this.

After what feels like an eternity, I finally spot Nadia walking back up to the VIP lounge. Her eyes just about pop out of her head, when they landed on Brooklyn and I.

“I don’t want any trouble!” Nadia yells backing away from us. We’ve attracted the attention of pretty much every single person in the VIP lounge. I can only imagine the shit that’ll be all over the news after tonight.

“Hold it bimbo Barbie! You’re not going anywhere.” Brooklyn yells as sge charges towards her. “You’re going to sit your ass down, and have a nice little chat with us.”

After talking with Nadia for over thirty minutes, she finally cracked. Telling us everything. Just like I assumed, Logan and Giselle were the masterminds behind the entire thing. Going as far, as paying off Kayden’s assistant to let them know when he was going to be in Paris so they could “accidentally” run into him at the hotel bar.

I feel sick to my stomach. Knowing people could hate me so much. Logan has hurt me in so many ways over the last few months. I don’t understand how he could do this to me, after everything I‘ve been through. Why he couldn’t just accept I was happy and moving on with my life. How can people can be so unhappy with their lives, that they make it their life’s mission to make other people’s lives a living hell.

“Wow, that’s some messed up shit!” Shayne says, handing me my drink and walking with Brooklyn and I back down to the bar.

“Yeah. I just went through a week of hell, when I should’ve been mailing out engagement announcements. All because some jealous bitch couldn’t accept the fact that Kayden loves me and not her.”

“Well I’m just glad I spotted them upstairs. Now we know the truth. You can set things right with Kayden. And hopefully she sticks to her word, and makes a public statement giving everyone the real story.”

“Me too. I just hope me not believing Kayden didn’t fracture our trust. I new deep down he was being honest with me. I was just so scared of the possibility that she was telling the truth.”

“Well, I wish you the best Savannah. If you and Kayden are ever in Vegas, and want some UFC tickets, here’s my number.” Pulling a business card from his pocket, Shayne hands it to me, and pulls me in for a hug. Kissing my cheek, he whispers in my ear, “I hope Knox understand how lucky he is Savannah, because you are a diamond in the ruff.”

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“Well you ready to go get your man back?” Brooklyn asks wheeling her luggage across the airport.

“Yes. I can’t wait to put all of this behind me, and go back to living my life with Kayden by my side. We’ve gone through enough shit, I think it’s about time God, fate whoever just allows us to be happy.”

“Amen sister! What are the odds Kayden and the guys are in Vegas?”

Rolling my eyes, I speed past her with my luggage in hand. “Don’t even say it Brooklyn, I want a drama free life from now on. By the way, sorry you’re missing Xander’s concert tonight.”

Jogging to keep up, she grabs my arm. “Slow down biotch, I don’t wanna break a heel! Oh, and I text Xander this morning. He said no worries; they’ll be in Texas in a few weeks. He promised me he’ll set two tickets with our names on them.”

Sitting in the air port terminal waiting for our flight, I scan through my cell reading all the text Kayden’s sent me over the last week. I can’t help but smile at all of them. Even though I was scared and ran back to LA. Kayden never let me forget that he loved me, even when he was thousands of miles away.

I can’t wait to surprise Kayden in Vegas, and tell him that I want to come home. This week has been hard, but taught me a lot. I definitely think I need to learn to take all these gossip magazine articles I’ll see in the future at face value. I promised Kayden our love was indestructible, and I need to remember those words every day moving forward.

Magazines will blow things out of proportion, people will sell false stories. What matters is how we face them. I now know facing them head on together, as a united force is key. I can’t keep running, every time I get scared, and doubt what I know deep inside of my heart. Kayden has proven to me, time and time again that he loves me. I need to let the fact that he won’t hurt me like Logan did sink into my stubborn head. My fears of being cheated on again almost cost me the only man who can truly make me happy.

Nadia told me last night that she’ll be doing an interview tomorrow with In Touch Weekly, telling them the true story, the lies and deceit, explaining that Logan and Giselle orchestrated this entire thing out of spite and jealousy. Let that be headline news, and Kayden and I can get back to celebrating our engagement. I still feel terrible for doubting Kayden, but I know we can move past this and become stronger as a couple.

The unconditional love and desire Kayden and I have for each other has been proven indestructible. There's no doubt in my mind that he is my soul mate. No one else on this earth could have gotten me through this nightmare, and now that it’s finally behind us.

There's nothing I'm looking forward to more than becoming Mrs. Kayden Knox.

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Acknowledgement

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First and foremost I must acknowledge and thank each and every person who took a chance on a new author and read Irresistible Desire & Inescapable Desire. A special thank you to the fanpages and blogs who pimped my book out and helped spread the word for my novels. Without you guys I would not be where I am today. My fictional book boyfriend & Book Whore fanpage, Mommy’s a Book Whore, One more Chapter, Alphas, Authors and Books oh my fanpage, First Class Books, The after dark diva’s book club, Crazies R Us Book Blog, and Sarah’s Book Blog. Just to name a few who’ve been by my side since day one. They took a chance on a new Indie author, and helped get me to where I am today.

A Gigantic thank you to Kayla the Bibliophile, for the endless hours spent perfecting this book! For all of our long hilariously funny chats, I‘ve not just found a friend in you…but an amazing best friend!! You helped me make this book truly AMAZING!!

I cannot thank Natasha, from Scandalous Book Blog who always helps me throw an awesome Blog Tour! The tours are key to a getting my books out there to readers! I can’t thank all the blogs who participated in Book 2’s tour and who are signed up to participate in book 3’s! Without your endless dedication to us authors and your fans, our books wouldn’t get into all the readers’ hands that they do!

I want to give a special thank you to my beta readers who helped with feedback to make this book what it is! Victoria Murphy, Dionne Renfroe, Charlie Chishom from
Fifty Shades Worldwide
on Facebook, Stephanie Smith, and Lisa Bayley, Ashley Poe,
Jennifer Maikis
, Athenia Mia, Emily Sorby, Alexandra Louk, and Stacy Page-Ramay you all keep me going and helped SO MUCH with your feedback! Especially Ashley & Lisa who sent me perfectly detailed notes with great suggestions.  All you ladies rock! I can’t wait to continue the journey with Book 4!

A special shout out to my amazing friends who deserve a special thank you! Victoria, Kayla, Miranda, Dionne, Kellie and Charlie! You ladies kept me going whenever I doubted myself! You were my cheerleaders rooting me on, giving me the courage to keep pursuing this crazy dream! Because of you all, I have hopes that one day we’ll all be laying on a beach sipping fruity cocktails chatting about how far we’ve all come! XOXO love you all more than words can say!!