Neptune

Chapter 66 | The Father

L U K E

Two years ago

Josephine shook her head in denial, but my menacing eyes told her to not lie.

She let out a shaky breath. "I didn't know anything—"

"Liar!" I lashed out, losing my patience. The fury in my blood made me shake in anger.

Tears of fear pooled in Josephine's eyes.

"It wasn't my fault," she stuttered. "She was trying to trick you. I had to remind her of where she stood. I had to tell that bitch—"

"Watch your mouth," I hissed.

How dare she speak of Cassie like that.

I gripped her shoulders even firmer, trying so fucking hard not to hurt her, because a man should never hit a woman. "What the fuck did you do to her? How did you meet her?"

Josephine's tears dropped onto her cheeks. But then she glared at me, as if she couldn't accept the fact that I would hurt her because of another woman.

"She's a snake," Josephine bit out. "She was trying to manipulate you. She was trying to trick you to marry her. For God's sake, just because she was pregnant—"

"Pregnant?" My voice was shaking. My world seemed to stop.

"Yes, she was fucking pregnant," Josephine spat, her eyes murderous. Disgust skated all over her face. "I couldn't just let her barge into our life just like that. She disgusted me."

I was stunned. What the hell was Josephine talking about?

Cassie was pregnant? She was carrying my child?

My blood rushed to every vein in my body. No, she couldn't have possibly been...

But there had indeed been one time that we had sex without protection. I still remembered that I'd pulled out, but...

Fuck. We knew for a fact that it hadn't been completely safe. I might not have pulled out in time. It was Cassie that I'd rammed into—I should have expected that I couldn't control my fucking dick.

Oh, God.

"What happened to her?" I hissed again at Josephine, my fist shaking with rage. "How the fuck did you two even meet in the first place?"

She cried, as if seeing me treating her like this broke her heart. And there was nothing I wanted more than to shred her into pieces.

"I don't know." Her voice was a weak whisper. "She was the one who came here, and you were out of town because of a business meeting. We talked, and I left her at the coffee shop."

"What did you say to her?" I hollered again, startling her. I panted. This shit fucking hurt.

Knowing that Cassie was pregnant with my child and had come all the way here years ago only to be crushed by this bitch in front of me made me want to destroy everything.

Maybe I really deserved to be in hell.

Josephine's lips trembled. "You wouldn't hurt me, Luke." But the look in her eyes told me otherwise. She knew that she didn't even believe her own words. "You wouldn't destroy me."

I stared into her with so much coldness—I could even feel that my heart was already frozen.

There was only fury and resentment in my voice as I said the words to her, slowly and clearly, "Trust me, Josephine. I will fucking ruin you so badly that you'll wish you never knew me."