His Ruthless Revenge (A Dark Bully Romance)

Chapter Forty Three

"Thank God that's over." Finn sighs, collapsing onto the bed beside me. "Let's not put ourselves through that ever again."
"Sounds good to me." I add, turning on my side to face him.
"I forgot to mention how sexy you looked tonight." Finn whispers, pressing his body up against mine.
"Finn, we still haven't had a chance to talk yet." I remind him, placing my hand against his chest to stop him going any further. "You promised me we could."
"We can tomorrow." He promises me. "I'm far too tired right now."
He tilts my chin using the tip of his finger, placing a kiss against my lips before he moves down towards my neck.
"Not now, Finn."
"Why not? Give me one good reason why we can't?" He challenges me, awaiting my response.
"You said you were too tired." I point out lamely, struggling to come up with an excuse.
"I'm not in the mood for a heated discussion but I'm definitely in the mood for this." He groans, pulling at my T-shirt as he tries to remove it from me.
"We can't." I argue, searching my brain for a reason why.
"Why not?" He demands roughly. "Why can't we?"
"It's my time of the month." I lie, squeezing his hand lightly.
"Seriously?"
"I'm sorry." I apologise weakly, hating myself for being so deceitful towards him.
"Damn." He complains harshly. "I suppose there's still some things we can do though."
He tries removing my shirt once again but I fold my arms across my chest, refusing to be intimate until I've been honest with him.
"Not tonight. I'm sorry."
"Fine." He grumbles, turning his back on me as he rolls over. "I best get some sleep as I've got an early start tomorrow."
"How come?"
"Work." He replies bluntly, bringing an end to our conversation.

Finn has already left by the time I wake up the following morning. He usually leaves a note for me on his pillow if he has to leave without saying goodbye but there's nothing there for me this morning.
I reach for my phone and check my messages, hoping he might have sent a text instead. There's nothing on there either and I sigh deeply, closing my eyes as I crawl back underneath the covers.

I sleep for another hour or so before my alarm clock wakes me up. I switch it off and reach for my phone again, searching for anything new from Finn.

Nothing.

However, I do have an unread message that wasn't there an hour ago and I freeze as soon as I see who sent it.

Chase.

Part of me is desperate to read it and the other part of me feels sick. I've no idea what it says and Chase is so unpredictable, I honestly have no idea what it might be.
I inhale slowly, trying to summon up all of my courage as I open his message, my eyes scanning the brief text he sent me just a few minutes earlier.

I booked the cabin for us. It's ours from tomorrow evening if you still want it.

Chase x

I breathe a sigh of relief, placing my phone on the bedside table beside me. At least it's not another demand from him and it gives me the rest of today to figure out what I'm going to do about Finn and exactly what I'm going to tell him.
He's not due home from work for several hours and I'm not sure I can wait that long. I know it's not ideal to surprise him when he's at work but I'm running out of options.
My guilt is eating away at me and I feel like I can't go another minute without confessing what's going on with Chase.

I have to tell Finn.

There's no way I can sneak away and not tell him. I can't betray him like that.

I jump in the shower and throw on a pair of clothes. The urge to see Finn and be completely honest with him has consumed me and nothing is going to get in the way of that. We all need to start being honest with one another and I don't care if that means I'm the first one to do it.
There's a huge chance that Finn will turn his back on me and despise me for what I'm going to tell him about my unresolved feelings for Chase but I can't back out from this. Not now.
There's also Miranda to consider. She's going to be broken-hearted when she finds out how Chase really feels about her but despite all of this, I still need to face the consequences. I need to take responsibility.