Chapter 53: SIAN

"What's with all the weird stares and giggles behind the hands? Have I suddenly sprouted another head?"

When neither Belle nor Tammy answered right away, but instead turned their faces, I knew something was very wrong.

"What?" I looked from one to the other, before Belle finally turned her phone to me.

There was a message there that I didn't quite get at first. It didn't compute for a lot of reasons. First, because it was sent to Belle's phone, and second because the words didn't make any sense, or I didn't want them to.

'I told you it was all a farce, did you really think he would leave me for her?' there was a picture of what looked like Jace in bed with Mandy in our cottage.

Subconsciously I knew it couldn't be right. I mean, Jace is always telling me about the many ways people try to shake down other people as he calls it. He even explained the fine art of photo shopping to me.

And what about yesterday? We'd made love all evening until he took me home. The guy that held me an