95|Lil Baby

Natalie didn't understand what the heck was going on.

One minute she was watching WrestleMania in her living room with Emily, and the next, Andrei's goons had stormed her place, threw a pillow slip over her head and drove her around for hours.

Now she was back at Rosewood Motel, in room 233 where Andrei sat in his chair with the sunlight streaming through the window like a halo around his golden head.

She had no frigging clue what he wanted with her this time. She'd done everything he'd asked. Hadn't opened her mouth about Ethan to anyone. Not even to Emily. So this meeting made no sense, and as she stood paralysed in place, she was so afraid to breathe, let alone ask why he'd summoned her.

Andrei quickly put her out of her misery and took control of their meeting like he'd done earlier. Was it earlier or yesterday? Natalie honestly couldn't say what day it was; time and space seemed to have converged into one gigantic mess of hallucinations and warped reality.

"Did you know Noelle is