CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Mark Conely
— YOU MUST BE going crazy, Anthony…
— Crazy I always was, but I never cheated on you, you fucker, and you can be absolutely sure you'll bitterly regret what you did.
Mark felt an ominous chill run through his entire body.
In all those years, Mark had never seen Anthony so upset.
Josie was right, he wasn't the same Tony they knew anymore... something had radically changed in him, and it wasn't for the better...
Of course he was wrong, but Josie had tricked them both.
For Mark, that night had been a dream, he had waited his whole life to be by her side, to feel the warmth of her body next to his, but like in a dream, it only lasted one night...
But it was worth a lifetime...
THE DAY AFTER Anthony's visit, Mark and Josie's photos were featured in the most diverse newspapers and magazines, what should have been a well — deserved vacation started to be hell.
From day to night, journalists from all over the world began to appear wanting to know the whereabouts of Josie, even the justice indicted him, because Anthony had been released due to lack of evidence, but the evidence indicated another path.
And Mark was now in it.
DESPITE THE SCANDAL in all the social columns, it seemed that nothing affected the euphoria of his fans, the shows continued normally, even better, since everyone always thought he was a — straightforward-man, modest to the extreme, but when they saw him in his moment wilder, this stirred many hearts, who took him as an example of life to be followed, and others who wanted to taste the nectar that Josie McMillan had tasted and shared with the whole world.
At first, Anthony disappeared completely, nobody heard from him for a long time, that was the trigger for the police to start suspecting him.
Before it was this way.
DESPITE HAVING BEEN smothered by the mainstream media, the case ended up being shelved, as Mark assumed that he had actually slept with Josie and that he had been with her for a few days in Brazil, the site's employees were his accomplices, but in the same way he had disappeared. from the United States had also disappeared from Brazil without a trace and because they had important data such as the date and time, they were able to track Josie and the use of a false passport to India.
Mark tried to muster the strength to go after her, but he had no idea where he might have ended up, he only had to look for one of two billion people in the second most populous country in the world.
AS MUCH AS HE TRIED to find anything that linked Josie and Tony and their disappearances, Mark just felt like he was a checkmate.
— Come on, Josie, come on, baby...
Speaking like Tony gave Mark a sense of power, but as usual, imitating Tony wasn't enough to make it work.
It had to be Tony to make it work.
MARK WAS HAVING LUNCH with one of his musicians, when he started to feel sick and an ambulance was called to help him.