The Billionaire’s Prodigal Wife – Chapter 24
Mackenna had never seen her best friend so angry. It wasn’t she’d never seen her angry. She’d just never seen her this angry. Her blue eyes were blazing, and her hair was bedraggled like she’d been pulling it and her lips were full and round. Her cheeks so red it reminded Mackenna of the time she’d gotten so sunburnt it had hurt to even breathe. Which she thought might have accounted for Savannah’s short breath if she hadn’t known she’d been working eighteen hour shifts for the last week and likely hadn’t seen the light of day.
“Savannah? What’s wrong?” Mackenna was amazed she wasn’t even looking in her direction.
Savannah managed to get across the room before Carlos or Nuncio knew what she was doing, and she landed a solid right hook to Alessandro’s cheek and the sound of it echoed in the room. In seconds Carlos had her pinned to a wall and Savannah was screaming for him to let her go because she was going to kill him.
nnah!” Macke
to have eased all of her pain!”
ood from his nose with a handkerchief and to
erate to protect your company from any negative publicity you purpo
n the arrogant stance as he moved to cross the room in her direction.
ious truth, but you are mistaken.”
r of them. “I went to her, Mac. I went to Dulce. When we had coffee this morning you were so torn, and it broke my
his eyes big and wide. “I used to be ashamed of it, but Mac taught me it shouldn’t matter to anyone else except me and my partner. She never judges me.” She lunged again at Alessandro as a thought occurred to her. “You should have trusted her, and you put her through hell instead!”
back off. She’s been calling reporters all week and yapping to the staff, and I just wanted her to back off a bit. Hell, the paparazzi outside were probably given your coordinates by her, she’s been so damn vocal.”
on the edge of the sofa. “Savannah, I already know she won’t. She wants Alessandro and he wants her. I’m just a filler. I hate it but in the end my baby is all who matters, and I’ll get aro
” Savannah spit angrily. “There’s the problem. You shouldn’t have to
ect.
rimaced. “No, you pompous a*s. I love her like a sister, like a best friend but not like a lover. We just don’t click sexually.”
it it out.”
e rubbish she was selling, she was selling it.”
it was rubbish?”
s*x for years but then I caught her in a lie. He,” she pointed to Alessandro, “didn’t tell her where he disappeared to for two days during fashion week in Pari
ave relaxed enough Carlos released her a
ooking at Alessandro, knowing he would be impassive and cold.
n the tabloids so she as it in her contract Giordano Fashion House can never publicize her sexuality and will protect her at all costs,” Savannah glared at him, “to the point of providing her a handbag.”
she spoke, she realized the intention of Savannah’s words. “Oh my God, they give her a decoy lover?” She turned and pointed at Alessandro. “You, you behave as her lover when you’re out?”
the rage at Savannah for interrupting the evening.
maker. Because there is a clause in the contract Alessandro cannot tell anyone, nobody, even you Mackenna, of his prized Dulce’s sexuality, he wouldn’t tell you. He just let you wither in misery.”
e lovers Mackenna, this is the truth.”
“All this time, all this time you knew the one thing to make it all better for me and you kept it from me.” Her voice cracked and she shook her head. “How did you get her
or being cold and insensitive and she laughe
nah, you kissed her,
h, and she kissed me back and it was something, I’m not going to lie. I’m sorry Mac, I know you hate her, and I crossed a line. Bu
muttered shaking his head. “Are you kidding me? Do you know the damage you have done Savannah? Your temper and your lust have probably cost my company millions of
me safe, the only one who genuinely loves me, has cost you some money? Of all the billions of dollars you make annually, this would be a blip on your radar and yet it’s where we are?”
o reveal her secrets Savannah,” Alessandro ignored Mackenna’s harsh words.
my hand on my boob when the nurse walked in and it sure as hell wasn’t my own hand holding the back of my
ngrily.
smartly.
she went off the deep end. She was screaming about calling her lawyer and her publicist and him,” she thumbed her hand in Alessandro’s direction.
asn’t for your friend Mackenna, then this would never have happened. Dulce can twist all of this and say it was a set-up to get rid of her. She has a forty-million-dollar contractual buyout. This is a nightmare, and
hugged her tight.
er last words. “You’ve done what I so want to do but don’t have the balls.”
. “I’m sorry, I know how much this must hurt. I’m sorry I kissed her. I know how much you despise
t I’m thankful for you going through all of this for me. You are the best friend anyone coul
eyebrows incredulously.
ant you both gone when I get back.”
a paled. “Excuse me?”
“you’ll lose your medical licence for taking advantage of a patient.”
r Mac. This is all you and Dulce,” Savannah hissed back angrily.
ust happened?”
enna,” Savanna whispered. “I didn’
e now?”
.”
over me.”
.”
had any opinion on the living quarters, he made no comment other than to wish them goodnight.
anged from her robe to a pair of velvet pants and a hoodie, obviously a choice Alessandro in his shopping of clothes for her he had chosen this as a comfortab
,” she corrected quietly. “He said he’d give me
lump in her throat.
at he can’t find.” Mackenna
the guy. You have always loved him, and I’m not convinced you will ever stop. Raising
ally exposed.” Mackenna looked at her friend. “I would rather spend the rest of my life alone than with him and his selfishness. He knew all this time Savannah. All this time, he had the key to saving our marriage in his hand. I would not have liked their relationship being all over the tabloids like it’s been but at the very least, I’d have understood. He just kept it from me. He kept me hidden from the world because he was embarrassed by me, never wanted anyone to know I existed. She knew our secret. I wasn’t allowed to know hers?” Mackenna wiped angry tears off her ch
l you go?” Savannah ask
nked on the sofa.
friend.