Chapter 25 - Margot
Is your man ready?
I texted Axel on the phone he’d given me and waited a few minutes for the reply. I had already waited to text him in the first place, to make sure Rhett was really gone the second time. Thankfully, I hadn’t texted him sooner to let him know I was mostly alone.
He’s by the back door downstairs. Behind the kitchen.
Heading down now.
Good girl. You will be rewarded.
Axel had never been an upstanding individual. Sure, at one point he’d painted himself as a charming, caring individual, but that had only lasted long enough to win me over. Still, this new Axel I was seeing, the one who seemed to have it together, was even more despicable than the junkie seller-user I had broken up with. Apparently, that Axel had only existed at home.
I took a deep bre
