Chapter 42
Rayna
The loud blaring of a phone startled Rayna awake early the next morning, and Dominic flinched, cuddled around her naked body from behind.
He groaned into her hair, shifting against her before she quickly lifted her head, blindly patting on the bedside cabinet for the vibrating device.
She grabbed it and squinted at the lit-up screen, trying to get her bleary eyes to focus.
When they did, wariness plastered itself down her spine, making her stiffen.
“V” was printed as the caller ID.
For him to call at six in the morning on a Sunday…something wasn’t right.
“Rayna?” Dominic rasped as she bolted upright and swiped to answer.
“V?” she said. “Is everything okay?”
She felt and heard Dominic sit up behind her.
There came a heavy exhale on the other end of the line, and she knew Victor was rubbing a hand over his face. “I need you and Dominic to meet me at the lab. Now,” he muttered.
Sharp shards of ice-cold fear cut through her veins.
Dominic’s hand settled on her lap as he whispered her name, but she’d gone so stiff and numb, she couldn’t feel the warmth of it.
“Why?” she managed to ask.
“I’m sorry, Rayna,” Victor croaked.
There was a painfully long pause as she waited to hear the words her gut was dreading.
“The Board knows about your relationship with Dominic.”