Natalia stared at the video of her getting hit as it played over and over. She was frozen as she watched it, wondering how she had survived. Who sent the email to her? It was clear they were threatening her. Hayden stopped the video from playing and hugged Natalia as she cried. "I'm going to forward this to Dennis. Maybe he can find out who sent it. Try not to think about that. You're alive and will be back to normal before you know it." Hayden was shaking with fury as he tried to comfort her. He assumed Jon sent it, but he didn't know for sure. "Why do so many people not only want to hurt me but want to kill me? What did I do to them? Shania was jealous of our relationship, so I know why she acted like she did, not that I condone it. What did I do to Cara besides lose touch with her? Jon cheated on me and broke my heart. I'm not to blame for whatever sick idiot he turned into." She was speaking in a whisper, unable to get the images out of her mind. Natalia kne

Jon whistled as he walked down the street. When he got to a trash can, he pulled off the prosthetic mask and threw it away. Now that Natalia had seen him in it, he couldn't risk wearing it again. He couldn't believe how easy it had been to get into her office. Jon had made a couple of calls to verify she would be at the meeting today. Once he confirmed the time, he rode up with the large group and went in as though he were with them. He saw the men standing outside her office door, so he knew it wouldn't be easy to get to her directly. When he shook her hand, he couldn't help holding on a little longer than necessary. He saw the fear in her eyes when she took her hand away. If she thought that was bad, she had a surprise coming. He would put her through so much pain that she would beg him to kill her. He looked at his phone at the images he had gotten from inside her apartment. He paused over the ones where she was naked. Her body was just as beautiful as he had im

Natalia woke up, and it took a minute to get her bearings. She looked around and realized they were in the penthouse. She grinned when she realized she didn't have any clothes on. Hayden had licked every bit of the frosting off her last night. When he was done, and she had orgasmed more than once, he gave her a bed bath. However, he said he wanted her to sleep with no clothes so he could feel her against him, even with the casts. She looked over at his handsome sleeping face and felt tears welling up in her eyes. She knew he'd been taking care of her for most of their time together. They were only at the beginning of their relationship when Cara pushed her. However, he had never shown one minute of hesitation in taking care of her or spending every minute by her side. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Hayden asked, concerned. When he woke up and saw her tears, he thought maybe she was in pain. She surprised him when she shook her head and smiled. "Nothings wro

"What do you have?" Hayden asked Dorian anxiously. "He used the same IP address to send both emails. The police couldn't find it because their tech team didn't know how to get through the smoke screens. Now just let me trace it back to get a physical location." They watched as Dorian started typing again. After a few more minutes, he looked up with a smile. "He's at a hotel not far from here. Do you want me to go there, or do you want the police to go?" He asked, looking at Hayden. "Can you go there and see what you can find out? Verify he is there and see if you see anything else that may help the police?" Hayden wanted the man dead but knew some things were better left being played by the book. "Alright. Let me make a few calls, and we'll check it out." Natalia watched the large man walk to the other room. "He's impressive." She said quietly. When Hayden didn't respond, she looked at him. She saw how he was watching Dorian, and she laughed. The man was jealous of the sm

Cliff was sweating profusely, sitting in the interrogation room waiting for the detective. He knew he shouldn't have trusted Jon from the beginning. Now he was going to go down in flames while that rat bastard got away. He decided he would be as truthful with the police as possible. Honestly, he didn't know much, and Jon had clearly left him in the dark on purpose. When the detective in the grey suit came in, Cliff's pulse was beating so fast he thought he was going to have a heart attack. Dennis sat down across from Cliff and looked at him with fury in his eyes. "You've already been read your Miranda rights and declined an attorney. So now, why don't you tell me what you and Jon had planned for Natalia." Dennis saw the man across from him swallow nervously. "I...uh...we...uh...we planned to pay her back for how she did each of us wrong," Cliff said as though it made perfect sense. Although now that he was sitting handcuffed in a chair, he was beginning to realize how r