Tell Me True (Call Me Cat Trilogy #3)(33)

I pulled my attention away from my phone, dropping it into my purse, and looked up at my husband. "You were saying?"

"Yes, well, remember that hotel in Ubud I told you about?"

I did—but when we arrived in the little town in central Bali, it took my breath away. My imagination could never have filled in the details of this majestic place, surrounded by a rainforest. We checked into our hotel and enjoyed the scattering of tropical flowers on the bed and the warm breeze blowing through the white gauze curtains on the window overlooking the Ayung River.

In the distance, monkeys chattered in the coconut palms and we could hear the waterfalls crashing against rocks.

We stood on the balcony and admired the cocoa and coffee trees blending with bamboo, flame trees and orchids. The lush color overwhelmed me.

We didn't waste time and soon stripped our clothes off and waded into the private cascading pool overlooking the forest. The warm water pulled me in and I sank into it, enjoying the feel of the sun on my bare flesh.

Ash joined me, our bodies coming together as he kissed me. His hand explored my body and found itself between my legs, pushing into me as I wrapped my legs around him in the water. He pushed me against the edge of the pool, water streaming over us as he spread my legs wider and placed his cock between the folds of my *. His tip teased me as he held me up against him. "Tell me you want me."

"I want you." I rubbed closer to him, trying to force him inside me, but he controlled my hips.

"Tell me you need me."

"I need you."

He sank deeper into me, filling me and stretching me, but didn't move.

"Tell me you love me."

"I love you, Ash."

He shoved himself into me, rocking me against the edge of the pool, f*cking me so hard I cried out, screaming his name.

In the jungle, the monkeys screeched in a cacophony of sound as we both climaxed together under the heat of the Bali sun.





Chapter Forty


Goodbye


THE NIGHT OF THE CRUISE


I STOOD, SHAKING, bits of Professor Cavin smeared into my hair and on my face, and I dropped the gun and sobbed. I'd just killed the man I thought of as my protector. My mentor. I covered myself with my shirt and adjusted my pants, disgusted and terrified by what he'd been about to do.

Angry at what he'd done to my mother and father.

Shaking, I searched the cabin for my mother's research, the last bit of evidence that any of this had happened. I hadn't wanted to leave the research behind. It seemed somehow fitting to have it here as I completed my revenge. I took it in my hands and lit a match, setting the bundle on fire as I dropped it into the tin trash can in the corner.

The flames danced in my eyes as I watched this chapter in my life end for good.

"Cat?"

I turned and saw Jon laying on the floor, his eyes open, his hand held out to me.

"Jon? But I thought…"

He moved slowly, opening up his shirt to show the safety vest he wore. "I knew it would be dangerous. I came prepared. It's over now, Cat. It's over. We can be together."

He sat up and reached for me, and I crawled toward him. "Oh Jon, there's so much I wish I could tell you."

"We'll have our whole lives for that," he said, a smile on his face.

"Jon, I know the truth. About everything."

His smile faltered. "The truth?"

I nodded. "I know you were there that night. With Cavin. I know you participated. I was young. I thought there was only one man there, but there were two."

He fell back, fear in his eyes. "Cat, he made me go. I didn't want to, but he made me, said I had to become a real man if I ever wanted to be a member of Alpha Pi Omega."

"You raped and helped murder my mother."

He shook his head. "Cat, please, it's over now. Let's just forget it and move on."

"You killed my father."

"Cat, they would have ruined everything."

"You destroyed her life even when she tried to help you." I held the gun up to his face. "I knew the whole time, Jon, I just needed to make sure. But I knew, and so did my mother. She knew you were a psychopath. She found the dead animals you tortured and buried. She studied you and saw the signs. Much of her research had been destroyed, but not the page where she named you. She knew what you were capable of and she was going to stop you, but you stopped her first. And now, I'm going to stop you. You were always a part of my plan."

"No, Cat! I love you."

"And I love Ash."

I pulled the trigger and watched him die.

"Goodbye, Jon."

***

The papers continued to burn. Words my mother had written that had spelled the end of her life.

Jon Davenport exhibits all the tendencies of a highly functioning and very dangerous psychopath. It is my belief that he is being groomed to take over, to become the monster the group needs to continue killing anyone who gets in their way. If something happens to me, look to him first. He won't stop until he is dead.

None of them will.


THE END