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• In Love With My Stepson   46~ A second chance?

  Hazel knows exactly where Lennox is headed.To them—her and Ryan.It’s time for their own punishment.Barely a minute later, the heavy door swings open. The screen display on the wall flickers—switching to the very room they’re in. Lennox walks in. Hazel’s heart thrums violently against her chest as he strolls to the center of the room, hands tucked casually into his pockets, like this is just another day for him.He halts. The air freezes as he stops moving.Ryan watches his father carefully—reading every twitch of muscle, every blink, every controlled inhale. Hazel watches him, eyes filled with nothing but fear.After a while of tense silence, of him staring into nothing, thinking, and calculating. Lennox exhales.The one punishment meant for Ryan is death. He betrayed his own blood. So he deserves to perish.But that is exactly what Rafaelle and Selene want—Ryan’s head on a platter, for his bloodline to end, to see them kill each other.He doesn’t have any other son. Any other leg

• In Love With My Stepson   45~ Or you get burned.

  “And now you can watch your children burn to ashes,” Lennox says coldly.“Oh my God,” Hazel bursts out, shocked.The flamethrowers ignite—whoosh!—twin pillars of fire, blasting at the children. Screams blast through the speakers. both the children and Mrs. Huxley’s.Hazel shuts her eyes tightly as her head drops down. She desperately wishes she could cover her ears, but her hands are tied up.It goes on for minutes. The screaming. The begging. The sound of flames. Until all that remains is Mrs. Huxley’s broken sobbing.Hesitantly, Hazel struggles to open her eyes. She doesn’t want to see it—the bodies of burned children.“Don’t,” she hears Ryan’s voice. “It’s better that way.”“No!” This time, she hears a different voice. Not Mrs. Huxley’s but Selene’s.Her eyes snap open as they shoot to the screen.The feed has changed to a different room, following wherever Lennox walks into.But this one… feels like a different kind of death.The room is different from the rest. It’s a sex dungeon

• In Love With My Stepson   44~ Don’t mess with the devil

  Lennox’s finger curls around the trigger, calm as ever. “Move again… he says, voice coated in threat, “and the show ends now.”He tilts his head slightly, and when their eyes lock, he smirks. “I’m sure neither of us want that.”Ryan remains frozen in his stance, breath stuck in his throat. The men seize the moment, pouncing on him—one kicks his back, knocking him to the ground, the others pile on, yanking his arms, cinching restraints so tight his joints strain.He doesn’t resist, he stands still, letting his eyes slowly drift to Hazel.“It’s okay,” Hazel mouths, nodding her head, tears trailing down her eyes.When they fully tie him up to the point he can’t move a muscle, they set him far across from Hazel, far from everyone and everything. Because anything can be a weapon.Lennox paces the space between them, His shoes echo off the floor, like a death knell. “You know,” he says, starting casual, “you’re lucky Selene killed that bastard child before I got the chance.”He turns to Ha

• In Love With My Stepson   43~ The show

  Two of Lennox Zephyr’s deadliest men hold Ryan’s arms in a strong grip. Their muscles don’t strain—they’re trained for this, hardened by years under a man who rewards obedience with riches and punishes failure with blood.The third man trails close behind as they march him down the cold, stone stairs.Ryan’s head throbs painfully with each step he takes down, It reverberates through his skull as if the stairwell is driving nails into his brain, his heart drumming wildly against his chest. No… he’s not panicked for his life, but Hazel’s‘I hope Hazel’s okay. I hope Hazel’s okay,’ it repeats constantly in his mind, guilt gripping him hard.He can only imagine the worst—after all, it’s his father.His heart, already shattered. He’s lost all hope of meeting her alive.If his father can call three men to get him from wherever he is, then getting Hazel—who is so close to him in the same mansion—can be done in a flick of his finger.He may have already hurt her.He sees blood. Bruises. Her

• In Love With My Stepson   42~ Not his.

  “Tell me, Hazel… the child you lost—was it even mine?” Lennox ask and my lips tremble as I struggle to form words.I knew this moment would come—from the very beginningThat first night, when Ryan, drunk and barely conscious, dragged me into his bed… and I jumped out. I jumped because I knew. No matter how careful we were, no matter how deep we buried it, Lennox would find out at the end of the day.Yet i let both my love and lust get better of me.“Tell me!” he growls, making the whole room shake with the power of his voice.My eyes lock onto his dark orbs, and in it is the determination to destroy, everything. Not confusion, not betrayal, not even hurt. Just an strong Intent to kill.There’s use lying now. It’s clear, he already knows everything.The l

• In Love With My Stepson   41~ cold stone stairs.

  I hope Ryan’s okay.The way he left, the look on his face, the deadly determination behind his eyes, the… gun.Wherever he’s heading to, it’s serious. Dangerous. I just hope he makes it back in one piece… without getting hurt, without any injuriesMy eyes stay locked on the window, unfocused. But, I notice something. About six hefty men marching out of the villa, heading towards the mansion. But I shake it off.There’s already too much going on in my head.I’m starting to accept it.It was always obvious. I just didn’t want to believe it. No, I wanted to hear it from Ryan himself. ‘They recorded us.’Recorded us and probably threatened Ryan with the clip.That I know. But what I don’t know is… Ryan’s next move. What’s going on in his head… What is he planning on doing next?That gun… is he going to use it? On them? Selene and Rafa?Although I want them to die, especially Selene, for what they did to me and the other women’s children, I don’t want Ryan to be the one to kill them. I