Page 97 of Insta Bride
I shuddered with the words I needed to hear. Climaxing with his fingers inside me, with Kye giving me the gift of himself.
Only after my first tear fell, did Kye crawl back up my body, to kiss it away.
“Babe?”
“It hurts so bloody much.”
“Where?” he said, looking down. “I didn’t—”
“No, not you. Everything outside the bedroom. Everything outside us. It hurts. I want to stop caring, but I can’t.”
“Oh.”
A single word, but he backed it up with action.
Making love to me as if it was our first and last time. Bringing me back to the peak, and holding me while I trembled to another orgasm. Bringing me back again, until the only way I could be satisfied was with him inside me.
Joining me.
Because, I needed him to show me he loved me, even if he couldn’t say the words.
“Lena, Lena,” he cried, pressing his face to my neck as I felt his intensity grow. “Lena, Lena, I—”
“Thank you for agreeing to meet me.” Danielle Stone invited me into her office two days after the interview aired. Three blocks away from my office, her office didn’t have a view, but it was larger than the dozens of cubicles I’d walked past.
“You said you had something to show me?”
“I thought you should see this.” She said, queuing up a video on her laptop. “I also hope I can trust you not to tell the production company.”
For the next hour, I watched Kye’s unedited interviews. From the Island, from when we’d returned to Brisbane as married couple. Then Danielle downloaded another file. Kye’s latest interview.
I tried to look past what my heart wanted to see. I tried to see if he was playing up our love story for the camera—
Or was it real?
The video ended and I sat back, stunned.
“What? Why?” I looked to Danielle for answers. “They took everything out of context. I watched the show. It made him look—”
“Like the producers want Benjamin and Kenzie to win over Australia?” Danielle nodded. “Someone found out that Bree and Kye have history and wanted to even up the playing field.”
“What should I do?”
“Remember that the two of you are the easiest couple to create conflict between. The producers will keep using your lying, cheating asshole comment. They will conjure up anything to make you jealous.”
“Great, not. What should I do?”
“Watch your back and believe your heart.”
“What should my heart say?”
“I shouldn’t be the one to tell you,” Danielle laughed. “But then again, I shouldn’t have shown you the raw footage.”
“Don’t stop now.”
“After the camera stopped rolling, Kye and I had a few minutes alone. I asked him for honesty.”
“And?”