Chapter 051

"I think you should send him the money." I whisper in the silence that follows Mr. Hernandez's departure.

"Don't be ridiculous, Amelia." Linc snaps as if I have just said said the worst thing he has ever heard and instead of quelling my anxiety, it just makes my paranoia flare.

"He is going to post the video online! He is going to. He said he would! Oh my God. That can't happen! It is damning! It will ruin us. You. Me. It will ruin everything!" I get out of my chair and start prancing the length of the study feeling like a caged animal at the end of its rope.

Linc gets up and walks up to me, I can't stop walking back and forth else the full force of my panic stays solid in my chest and I can't breath, so I walk around him. Past him. I march on.

"Amelia. Ameila..." Linc grabs my shoulders to stop me, I look into his eyes and feel like being drenched in cold waters. How can he be so calm? Does he not know the gravity of what is at stake here? Tyler is going to release that video!

"Liste