Chapter 435

Chapter 435:

Daniel looked like he wanted to argue, but I didn’t give him the opportunity. “It doesn’t matter what you meant to do. It doesn’t matter if you’ve already done it. I’m not interested in hearing the rest. You lied. Repeatedly. That’s enough. You’re not staying. You’re not my friend. That part’s over p>

I turned without waiting for a reaction.

“Priya!” I called out. “Get his termination sorted. Now p>

“So that’s it?” Daniel stood where he was. “I tried explaining everything, but you never believed me in the first place. You called me your friend, but you never meant it p>

He stepped forward, only two feet, but too close.

Ashton shoved him back. “Whatever you were after, stay the hell away from her. Don’t come near either of us again p>

Then he turned, still holding on to me. “Let’s go home p>

I nodded.

Behind us, Daniel shouted, “Mirabelle, just because I lied a little, you’re throwing me out? I didn’t do anything wrong p>

I didn’t look back.

I showed up at the studio around eleven, dragging myself up the stairs with one hand pressed against my lower back.

My legs felt like rubber, and I was still sore in places I wasn’t going to name.

Last night, I’d told Ashton I was heading to Yvaine’s for the evening, said she needed help with something and it couldn’t wait. Of course, Ashton didn’t buy a word of it. The man made me call her on speaker.

Yvaine tried to play along but made a mess of it.

Ashton listened to about three sentences before he hung up the call.

He turned off the lights, stripped, climbed into bed, and used his fingers and tongue until I was pushed to the edge.

Right at the moment when I was about to climax, the bastard rolled off me and told me I looked exhausted, so he’d let me rest. Then he pretended to close his eyes and sleep.

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Two seconds later, I was straddling him and begging.

And he still said no with a straight face, like some smug, infuriating monk.

In the heat of the moment, I said some things I now deeply regretted, such as revisiting my battery-operated boyfriend.

That set him off, and he pushed me until I screamed into the mattress and cursed him every way I knew. That only made him go harder.

And longer.

I passed out around four.

I hadn’t planned to come in today, but with Daniel gone, I figured Priya couldn’t handle everything by herself.

As soon as Ashton left the house, I hauled myself into a cab and came straight here.

Priya popped out from behind the counter.

She dropped her voice. “Dan came in early p>

I stopped. “What p>

Dan, as in Daniel, as in the guy I fired yesterday?

Priya said, “Earlier than me. He said something about the site needing a backend patch only he can do.” She looked conflicted. “Then he pulled the contract and told me we can’t terminate without cause p>