Chapter 74

Chapter 73 Gasps echoed across the room at the man’s declaration. Even Zeke was shocked and confused because the women hadn’t told him any story about the pictures.

He turned to Thalassa, his eyes wide with disbelief. “Naked pictures? What pictures is he talking about?”

No one attempted to answer him. Thalassa’s gaze was fixed on the man who might have raped her, too focused to even spare Zeke a glance.

Kris finally let go of the man and stepped in front of Karen. I’m going to give you one chance to defend yourself. Just one.”

His voice was cold. So cold that it sent a shiver of panic down Karen’s spine. “That man is lying!” she quickly said. “How could I have paid him to do anything when I’ve never even seen him before?”

Kris’s lips curled wryly. “So now you don’t know him? I thought you were the one who took the pictures when you caught Thalassa...” He used his index fingers to air–quote the next word. “...‘cheating.“”

Karen panicked, realizing she’d messed up, but quickly thought of something. “What I meant to say is that I’ve never spoken to this man in my life! That night, Thalassa told me she wanted to have a little fun before the two of you got married, since she felt like she was going to be caged for a while. I tried to stop her, telling her she’d betrayed you enough, but she didn’t listen. I was tired of her deceiving you and making me her accomplice, and I knew you needed to know the truth before marrying her. That’s why I followed her when she went to fuck this guy, and I took those pictures. I took them to protect you.”

Kris snorted. “When you told me that story years ago, you said Thalassa went to seduce him while he was having a drink at the nightclub. But this man has been working as a stripper and a prostitute for more than five years, so how did you fail to mention that in your story?”

Karen swallowed nervously. “I don’t know. I didn’t go with them initially so I’m sure she must’ve paid him. That’s how desperate she was to sleep with other men before your wedding.”

She reached out and cupped Kris’s face between her hands. Her heart rejoiced when he didn’t pull away, and she looked into his eyes as she pleaded, “Please, you have to believe me.”

She thought her words had worked until Kris suddenly grabbed her by the wrists and tore her hands away from his face. “I would be the most idiotic person in the world to even think of trusting you again.”

Karen’s eyes widened. “Kris, please! How can you trust this man over me? He’s a liar.”

She turned her hateful gaze to Thalassa’s table, pointing an accusing finger at her. “That bitch obviously paid him to say all those things. Or who knows? She must’ve let him fuck her again just to get him to lie for her.”

“Karen!” A savage sound tore out of Kris’s throat as he raised his hand sharply, but he caught himself before he could do what every instinct in his body was telling him to do, his hand freezing in midair.

He’d never hit a woman in his life, but God, did Karen make him feel close to it. Having to pretend, even after discovering the truth, just so he could expose her in front of Thalassa had been the most torturous thing he’d done in a long time. Every second of the drive here, he’d been close to grabbing her neck and squeezing the life out of her.

“You were going to hit me?” Karen spoke in bewilderment “Because of these liars? I can’t believe it!”

“The only liar here is you!” The man in the pictures groaned after one of the guards behind him punched him in the ribs to make him speak. “That day, you sought me out and told me your plans–you wanted to bring someone, and you wanted to take compromising pictures of me and her naked together. You even wired $20,000 to me after the job was done, and I have proof of that.”

1/2 Chapter 73 +25 BONUS He turned to Kris, his eyes desperate. “But I swear! I swear on my life that I didn’t sleep with her. I didn’t penetrate her or anything. I just rubbed my cock on her pussy to make it look real, but I didn’t fuck her, I swear.”

The mental images created by the man’s words only made Kris more furious.

“Shut up, you fucking animal!” he snarled, slamming his fist into the man’s mouth. “You didn’t sleep with her? And you think that exonerates you? That was still assault! She was drugged! You violated her privacy when she was barely conscious and didn’t even know what was going on!”

Rage surged through him again, causing him to deliver another punch to the man’s face. The bastard would have fallen, but the guards behind him held him in place, allowing Kris to punch him again, this time in the abdomen.

The man coughed and doubled over in pain while Kris breathed heavily, his eyes blazing with rage.

Watching everything unfold, Thalassa felt relieved to hear that the rape hadn’t happened like she’d feared, but that didn’t stop her from feeling raw inside as she thought about the fact that someone she had trusted so much had arranged for something like that to be done to her.

“Kris, please, you have to believe me,” Karen said desperately. “This man is making it all up. I’ve never spoken to him in my life.

If he claims that I went to see him that day, then he should show us proof. But he can’t because he’s nothing but a liar!”

While she waited for him to say something, Kris slowly turned his head and looked in Thalassa’s direction. His heart squeezed painfully at the cold, distant look in her eyes.

“I don’t need any proof, Karen,” he said, his throat tightening with emotion. “I was an idiot before, but not anymore. I don’t need any other proof to know that Thalassa never betrayed me.”

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