Treacherous Secrets novel Chapter 15

"Fuck you," Damon shouted. "I should have known better than to believe you. You were never going to leave your wife and you were expecting me to leave mine. You were just using me, like you use everyone!"

Damon paused to listen again and then said. "You aren't man enough to come here to talk to me. You are just a pussy piece of shit."

Kim did hear the other man say. "I'm on my way." She rushed back to their table where Ashley was looking around for her.

"Where the hell did you go?"

"You are not going to believe who is here," she said, grabbing Ashley's hand. "Come on, we have to get out of plain view. There's getting ready to be a scene."

"What are you talking about?" Ashley asked, grabbing their beers.

"Damon is here," Kim said, pulling Ashley into the shadows along side of the wall almost to the back of the bar. "He was fighting with someone on the phone who he accused of screwing him and his wife. Like whoever it was, is having an affair with Damon and his wife, Carol."

"Are you shitting me?"

"Nope," Kim said.

Damon had gone to the bar and ordered a drink. Kim and Ashley had a clear view of him, but if he turned in their direction he wouldn't be able to see them.

They didn't have to wait long until a man stormed in the bar and straight up to Damon. Kim and Ashley both gasped in recognition. It was Kenton.

"Oh my God!" Ashley said.

Kim said, "We need to get closer so we can hear what they are saying."

They couldn't hear the conversation but the two men were clearly arguing. Kim took Ashley's hand and pulled her closer to Damon and Kenton. Suddenly, Mario stormed into the bar.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" Kenton demanded.

Damon turned on Kenton, "Are you fucking him too?"

That caused Mario to pause for just a moment. He stared questioningly at both of them and then turned to Kenton. "If you ever hurt Emily again, I'm going to kill your stupid ass."

"Oh, little servant boy has a crush on the master's wife," Kenton taunted.

Mario punched Kenton hard in the face, causing Kenton to stumble backwards. The bouncers were immediately on Mario and pushing him toward the door. Mario shouted over the shoulders of the bouncers. "I mean it, motherfucker. You better never put your hands on her again."

Kim and Ashley looked at each other. "I wonder how he knew Kenton was here," Kim said.

"That's a good question," Ashley agreed.

Damon and Kenton went back to arguing. During the commotion, Kim and Ashley had gotten close enough to hear tidbits of the argument."I can't believe you listened to her. You know she's a fruitcake," Kenton was saying.

Kenton stormed ahead of Damon, but stopped to speak to a very handsome young man. The young man smiled and took Kenton's arm. Kenton turned and grinned wickedly at Damon, who launched himself in Kenton's direction, but the bouncers held him back. The bouncers held on to Damon until Kenton had left the bar's parking lot. "Keep your lover's spats out of here," one of the bouncers told Damon as they escorted him out of the building.

The fight had caused several people to gather around the bar so they could watch and now everyone was slowly going back to what they had been doing before. Kim took Ashley's hand. "Let's get out of here." She looked toward the door and noticed a skinny guy staring at her. He looked vaguely familiar. She turned to have Ashley look at him to see if she knew the guy, but when they both looked back, he was gone.

"Wow, that was totally weird," Ashley said when they got into the car.

"Yes, it was," Kim agreed. "Are you going to tell Emily about it?"

"Of course, I'm going to tell Emily about it," Ashley said. "And if Kenton has been going to the sex clubs, he's probably using Ecstasy, or some other club drug and several of them cause people to be violent. That would explain his behavior toward Emily the other night."

Mario knocked on Emily's hotel room door."Who's there?" she called.

"It's me," Mario said.

Emily cracked open the door and peeked outside. When she saw that it was Mario, she unlatched the lock and opened the door. "Thank God," she said. "I was so worried. Sonja said that you went looking for Kenton."

Mario sighed. "She shouldn't have told you that."

Emily closed and locked the door. "You shouldn't have done that, Mario. He's crazy. He could have killed you."

"He may be crazy, but he'd have had to use a gun to kill me." He sat down at the small table in the corner of the room and motioned for Emily to sit next to him. "Why didn't you stay with your parents?"