Exposed (MAC Security 2)

SECRET ~ NOUN

SOMETHING THAT IS KEPT OR MEANT TO BE KEPT UNKNOWN OR UNSEEN BY OTHERS

Keeping a secret was hard.

Especially from the one person you never wanted to keep secrets from.

When that secret turns up out of the blue, bringing back all the painful memories?

What would you do?

Reveal your secret? Or keep it as long as you could?

I thought what she had done to me was unforgivable, but that was nothing to what she had planned.

A storm was brewing, about to rain down everything that I had kept locked away.

Once all the secrets were revealed, would it bring me and Kay closer?

Or tear us apart for good?

**WARNING**

This book may contain scenes which some readers will find upsetting.

Someone had their hands gripped around my heart, squeezing with all of the strength they could muster. The noise in the room quieted and the people started to slowly disappear. The only people here were me, Ty, and her.

Staring at her with wide eyes, I watched as the smirk on her face grew. In that moment, her whole face turned evil and her eyes slanted slightly away from her nose as she looked at me. There was something behind her eyes, I couldn’t place it but I saw it.

My eyes flicked from her then back to Ty, I expected him to say something. Anything. But he just stood there, mouth hanging open and eyes as wide as saucers.

I watched in slow motion as she moved closer to him, her perfectly painted red lips whispering something to him. This was where he would pull away and tell me that she was mistaken.

I waited. Any second now, he would clear this all up. It was one big misunderstanding.

He leaned closer to her and with that one move, all the noise came rushing back.

There was no way I could stand and watch this, I was a spare part, an extra wheel. I spun on my heel and pushed past Daley who was also staring at them in shock. His hand came out to stop me and I moved away from him, I didn’t want to be touched and definitely not by him. I didn’t want to be anywhere near any of them. The further I moved away from them, the louder the room became. By the time I was on the stairs, I registered that most of the noise was coming from my ear piece and not the people in the room.

They were all shouting different things at me. I couldn’t keep up with what they were trying to say, but I still strained to see if I could hear Ty. Holding out hope that he was calling out to me, to stop me from leaving, but I couldn’t hear him.

“Stop,” I croaked. They didn’t listen and I still couldn’t hear Ty.

Leaning my head against the wall, I heaved a giant breath, closing my eyes and trying my hardest to not freak out.

“Kay?” Luke’s voice came through the ear piece the loudest. I shook my head and pulled the ear piece out of my ear.

I needed to catch my breath, I needed to think. I had to… I didn’t know what I had to do but I knew that I couldn’t stay here any longer.

The sound of the door opening had me panicking. Pushing off the wall I rushed down the stairs and through the reception area, straight out the front doors.

Valet parking stations sat outside with men dressed in suits taking Keys and driving off in elaborate sports cars; the kind of cars that they would never own and only got to drive to a parking lot.

Looking left, then right, I walked towards the course green. I followed the twinkling lights on the trees, only stopping when I couldn’t hear the noise coming from the country club. The only noise I could hear now were the thoughts swirling around in my head.

A lone tear traveled down my cheek, that one tear was the most heart breaking tear that I had ever let slip.

Why had I given myself to him so freely?

I seriously had the worst luck with men.

I should have made more of an effort to get to know him, to know his past. I didn’t even know what his favorite food was.

I laughed at that thought. Why would I need to know that? It was so small and inconsequential but inside my head it made perfect sense. I should know what it was.

I’d walked that far that I couldn’t see the country club at all now. Part of me was relieved that I was so far away from it but there was another part, a small voice in my head that told me, that it was dangerous to be this far away from anybody. Especially in the dark.

Coming to a stop, I plopped down on the ground, my dress fanning around me.

I wasn’t stupid. I knew that Ty had a past, but that back there was a very big part of his past. One that he should have told me about.

I wiped furiously at my face, not caring that I had probably smudged the makeup that Kitty had spent so long putting on me.

I’d been through worse. Physically.

But my heart was breaking. Breaking so much more than I ever

thought possible.

“Kay?” I jumped at Luke’s voice, spinning around while scowling at him.

“Jeez, Luke, you scared me!” Huffing, I turned back around and studied the lights straight ahead of me.

I didn’t want to talk to him, I didn’t want to talk to any of them. I watched out the corner of my eye as he sat down and rested his arms on his knees.