Chapter 5 The employees who'd come with me looked ready to explode. "Mr. Sterling, don't listen to a word this intern says! He was in bed with both of your future brides. Why would you send them money?" "Derek, do you seriously think you can play our Mr. Sterling for a fool just because you saved his life once? I don't care what you did for him. He's the one who got you a job here. This and that have nothing to do with the other.

You've gone way too far!" The room erupted with people cursing him out, but the second Raine and Skye's phones chimed with the hundred-thousand-dollar deposit, every trace of panic disappeared from Derek's face. He snorted and turned to the sisters. "Raine, Skye, something feels off about this. What if Mr. Sterling was the one who drugged us? What if this is his idea of revenge?" Even the employees who'd been shouting at him a second ago sucked in a breath. "No way. Mr. Sterling's always been a straight shooter.

There's no way he'd drug the girls he grew up with." "But look how confident Derek is about this. Would he really talk like that if it wasn't true?" Everyone's eyes darted nervously to Raine and Skye, waiting to see how they'd react. Derek alone looked completely at ease. He acted like a man who'd truly been wronged, and he pointed a finger straight at me. "Mr. Sterling! You drugged them because you wanted to force yourself on them, and I just happened to catch you in the act. I risked myself to save them! "what's the point of bringing this whole crowd in here, huh?

Trying to twist the story and pin the blame on me? Not a chance! Raine and Skye will back me up on this." Then he spun around and snapped at the two of them. "You two shameless women. We're in this deep now, and you're still trying to protect that rapist Julian?" Raine clutched her chest, breathing hard, while Skye's eyes stayed locked on me. By now, everyone had swallowed Derek's story whole. The employees standing closest to me all took a step back, disgust plain on their faces. That was when Raine and Skye finally moved. They lunged straight at Derek and started beating him without mercy.

"Liar! Julian's been out of town the entire time! How could he have drugged us?" "You're the one who forced yourself on us! Derek, drop dead!" Derek looked baffled. "What's wrong with you two? Julian just handed you money. You're supposed to hate him. Why are you taking his side now?" I drove my foot into Derek's chest hard enough to make him cough up blood, then looked down at him from above. "What made you so sure that the better I treated them, the more they'd hate me? What exactly did you do?" _Derek's eyes went wide with shock, and he immediately backpedaled.

"Don't put words in my mouth. I haven't done anything!" Raine and Skye realized by now that things had spiraled completely out of control, and no amount of talking was going to fix it. They dropped to their knees in front of me, begging over and over. "Mr. Sterling, Derek tricked us. He tricked all of us!" "We don't know anything. We just woke up in that bed. He forced us into it. Please, you have to forgive us!" For one brief moment, something in me softened. After all, this whole mess had been Derek and that system's doing. In a way, they were victims too.

We'd also always gotten along so well before all this. Even if none of us ever became a couple, I'd still have treated them like sisters for the rest of my life. But asking me to just let it go and to forgive them that easily? That was a bitter pill I couldn't swallow. I was torn and didn't answer right away. That was when my phone started buzzing again. I checked it, and it was another update about the car accident. By the time I'd read through everything, whatever pity had been left in my eyes drained away completely. All that remained was pure hatred.

My chest tightened so hard I could barely breathe. I stumbled a few steps and slid down the wall to the floor. Right there in the investigation report, two names stared back at me. Raine and Skye. o co? Support share