Chapter: CHAPTER 5“I can't leave…” A muffled sound boomed in the quiet room.Nora turned immediately at the sound of the voice, shock, and excitement bursting within her. Never in a lifetime had she thought that she would hear her mother’s voice clear and sharp again.But all she saw was an old fragile and frail woman back in her confused, delusional state. She turned back bitter and dejected, the only string of hope she had was lost. How could she have imagined that her mother would be lucid again?She was now at the mercy of a stranger. Who she believed had a hand in the underworld- she was a hundred percent sure. That did not amaze her, after all, she just discovered the hidden identity and operations of Darius, Landon's father.Tyler’s men dragged her out of the room, doing the same with her mother. “Please be careful with her. She is very weak.” She pleaded as they walked out.“And wear her coat.” She screamed again.Landon collapsed on the bed when it was just him. He was glad to have gotten rid
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Chapter: CHAPTER 4Tyler leaned back in his chair, his expression blank and unreadable as he listened to Landon speak with rapt attention.He let him believe he was convinced, watching the excitement in his voice and the sparkle in his eyes as he continued to explain why Nora was a better hostage to her even stating Nora’s benefits to him as a woman.His voice brimmed with confidence, his pitch exaggerated with excitement of his brilliance.“You don’t understand, Tyler,” Landon insisted, almost rising to his feet. “She won’t resist. She has no choice! I have leverage over her; her mother is in my hands.” He leaned forward, his lips curling into a satisfied smirk. “She’ll do anything to keep her mother safe.”“Not only that, she is also good in bed.” He winked at Tyler. Tyler threw his face away, remembering their fleeting moment of romance.However, Nora felt her world collapse upside down. The breath in her throat ceased for a moment and she almost choked, her body locked in place as the weight of his
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Chapter: CHAPTER 3Nora stood rooted in the ground, at a loss of what to say. She fixed her eyes on the ground, unable to look at him and to prevent him from discovering her trembling sight.Tyler frowned when she didn’t say a word, he pushed her back into the room and came into contact with her mother. He eyed them before asking, “What are you doing here?”“Ehm…” she struggled to find the right excuse to give. “I'm a nurse here… I mistakenly entered the wrong room.”“Oh! And the woman?” “She is my patient.” She lied and fortunately, her mum didn't say a word.“Take her to the toilet.” He commanded and Nora had no choice but to do that.Tyler switched on the bedside lamp, and the moment he saw her face, he was momentarily stunned, falling into silence.Just as Nora was getting more nervous, he suddenly smirked. "Well, that works out. I need someone to check my wound."With that, he casually pulled open his shirt, revealing his broad shoulder. The wound wasn't deep, but under the dim light, the blood sm
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Chapter: CHAPTER 2Nora took a moment to calm herself down despite the surge of adrenaline rushing through her. She was disgusted at the mere sight of looking at them alone but a small smirk formed at the corner of her lips.“Okay but do you mean the one beside my bed, Josephine?” “Hmm, the one by the right stand.” Nora paused, that meant she needed to make a turn to the right. A thought appeared to her and she dropped to her knees, crawling her way through the bed stand.From a reflection, she saw that the two had gone back to their irritable affection. She reached the bed stand and held the wood for support before turning, holding it still.She opened the large cabinet and seeing that they were still engaged, intentionally she let the contents fall to the ground causing them to panic.“What are you doing Nora?” The nurse screamed out.“I'm so sorry, I didn’t mean to.” She fell to her knees, picking up the bottles on the floor.“Just bring the medicine,” Landon spoke out, not wanting the plan to fail
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Chapter: Chapter 1Nora turned uneasy on her bed, sweating profusely. Her body was drenched in sweat and it didn’t seem like it was going to get better.“Where the hell is Josephine?” She murmured to herself, anticipating the arrival of the nurse assigned to her. Or even Landon. She needed a miracle person to step in and adjust the room temperature.‘I can't take this anymore.’ She frowned in frustration, deciding to do that herself.She groped the bedspread tightly, still hoping for someone to walk in. But after a moment she decided to do it herself, secretly praying that she would not be caught.Her eyeballs moved gently under her eyelid and she slowly opened her eyes. The direct beam of sunlight on her made her shut her eyes back.‘No wonder it was so hot.’ The bed had been moved to face the only window where light radiated in and unfortunately for Nora, it was doing exactly that.Nora sighed in frustration, she needed to open her eyes despite how unsafe it was for her. She was just starting to reco
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Chapter: CHAPTER NINETYISABELLA.I pushed the door to my father's study open without knocking, because why should I? The room belonged to him on paper, but in truth, it was mine the moment he let his greed outpace his judgment. My heels hit the polished floor, each step a warning bell. I carried the weight of my schemes like a crown, invisible yet heavy enough to bend anyone else.But not me. Never me.The stack of documents slapped down onto his desk, papers fanned like a deck of cards I already knew how to play. Every single one of those papers bore his signature, his little flourish of ink binding him tighter to me. He had thought he was clever once, thought he was maneuvering me into his pocket. Poor man. What he didn’t realize was that every stroke of his pen had been another chain around his own throat.His eyes flicked down at the pages, his jaw tightening. "What is this supposed to be? A parade of signatures you tricked me into?"I let a slow smile curl at the corner of my mouth. "Not a trick, Dad.
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINECLARISSA.I tossed and turned on the bed that night, sleep eluding me completely no matter how hard I tried. The night weighed in on me like a suffocating blanket, and my mind looped on every single scenario that had played out since the genesis of my chaos. Devan's words — we've got to be very careful around her, I don't trust her at this point rang in my ears again, and my mind drifted to my father's cryptic remarks about loyalty and betrayal the last time I'd met with him, and then to Isabella's soft voice when she made the comments and asked the questions I had found all suspicious.At this point, it felt like I didn't have a family anymore, like I belonged nowhere, because everyone around me seemed to be lying to me, seemed to be pulling their own strings and playing their own games, including the people closest to me.I finally fell asleep very late into the night, after hours of endless thought, and my eyes fluttered open as the rays of the morning sun filtered through my curta
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHTCLARISSA.The night felt heavier than usual, and with the incident that had happened earlier at Devan's, I found myself regretting deeply why I hadn't said anything to Devan earlier than I did, the relief of sharing what I knew with him quickly replaced by the ache of what I had kept back, still. Devan, on the other hand, had refused to take a moment's rest, pressing into every lead, making calls and seeking answers even more than I did as if his wounded body wasn't already paying a steep price. I watched him with quiet torment, my chest tightening with guilt each time I saw him wince. It was my chaos that had followed him to his home, my storm that had scarred his flesh, and yet, he kept moving like nothing had happened, like nothing could stop him.I leaned against the doorway of his study, watching him pace about restlessly. The light was low, a single desk lamp casting long shadows across the walls. He held a file in one hand, flipping from page to page. It was as if he hadn't n
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVENDEVAN.I was done. I had had enough of waiting and hiding and watching the shadows curve around Clarissa’s life, and in extension, into mine. The memories of every single scenario since the start of this whole drama were still fresh, and then the incident at the hospital, the fake nurse who had come in under the pretense of administering a follow-up medication, the ruffle I'd had with the two men who had suddenly come in, and then Clarissa's scared look when she finally arrived. I just couldn't erase all of that easily from my memory. I could still remember the guilt I had seen in Clarissa’s eyes from keeping her meeting with Bruce away from me, and though she had apologized over and over for dragging me into this, the deed had already been done. I was already fully dragged in.Right now, I have to make a move, and the first would be confronting Marcus Montclair himself.***I sat in the living room of the Montclair Mansion, the air thick and silent. The house was silent and there se
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIXISABELLA.I arrived at the gates of the Montclair Mansion a few minutes past midnight, and as I drove towards the car park, I made a silent prayer within me, hoping that my father was already asleep. I climbed the short stairs that led to the entrance and pushed the door gently and quietly, tiptoeing to avoid any form of noise that would attract attention to me. The living room was empty as I stepped in, and I heaved a sigh of relief as I went into the kitchen to have some water before I headed upstairs to my room.I heaved an exhausted sigh as I stepped into my bedroom, shutting the door tightly behind me. I tossed my purse on the dresser and sank my weight into the armchair placed a few meters away from my bed, extremely tired from the long hours of driving. The words of the cloaked figure rang through my mind again as I replayed the sequence of my meeting with him, the phrase ‘use the most efficient seed of doubt this time’ re-echoing more often than any other thing he had said all
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVEISABELLA.The dark room offered a hideous image, one that said that it was a haven for ghosts, people who were known to exist but never seen, as was the cloaked figure. I stepped inside the living room, my heels clicking against the stony floor with a boldness I never imagined I had. The cloaked figure had invited me over, informing me of his intention to show me the blueprint of the plans he had all arranged, and as I walked in, my mind buzzed in anticipation.He was already there, waiting as he always did — silent and still, a shadow carved from the dark. I stared at him as I walked across the room. the man with no face and no name, and who had gradually started getting used to my little tag, ‘the cloaked figure’.“The cloaked figure,” he had said once, interrupting something I was saying to him. “I think I actually like that. I'll think about using it as my moniker, since I am liter
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