Page 21 of The Devoted Husband

Two Days Later

“I’m not sure what you want me to say to that, Atlas,” Sade said.

“Say you agree.”

“I love you, and you don’t have to say it, but I know you love me too.”

“Look...I won’t deny that I have a lot of respect and appreciation for you because of what you did to Dante for me, but—”

Dante couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

It was one thing to consider Sade dating Atlas.

Had she just admitted to being in on the plan to have him framed and killed?

How could she say she had Atlas do what he did?

Unable to hear anymore, Dante grabbed Atlas by the back of his shirt and slung him to the carpeted floor.

Their eyes remained locked on each other’s.

It didn’t matter how much Sade screamed for him to stop and pulled at his arms, Dante wouldn’t let go.

He wanted to watch as the life faded out of Atlas’s eyes.

Even when Atlas blacked out, Dante kept his hands around his neck.

It wasn’t until several arms wrapped around him that he got up.

“I can’t believe you, Sade! This is what you wanted me here to say? That you were in on it with them? How could you betray me like this!”

“It’s not what you’re thinking!” she yelled with tears streaming down her cheeks, but they meant nothing to Dante.

He’d heard it with his own ears—Sade appreciated Atlas for what he did to Dante for her— for her . Atlas had only done one thing to Dante, and that was run into him and almost kill him.

What was the reason?

Was she so upset about him being with Imani that she wanted him dead?

Was that why she left him in Vanzette?

None of it mattered now because Dante vowed to make them both pay as he was pulled out of the restaurant.