Isla drove to the farmhouse of the retired psychiatrist on the outskirts of New York. She stopped her car at the gates and stepped out. She drew a deep breath and doubted her decision to visit a psychiatrist, but the last few nights were horrible to her. “It’s alright! I’m fine! I don’t need help!!” She spoke to herself and turned to leave when her eyes landed on the board hanging on the gate. “Just one step inside and you may come across something you never think of!” She stared at the board and slowly opened the gate, walking inside. She rang the doorbell and an elderly man in his eighties opened the door. “Are you Dr. David Sampson?” “Yes. Please come inside!” He said and opened the door wide enough for her. “Please have a seat!” Isla sat on the couch, looking around, and Dr. David sat across from her in his recliner. “We had a word on the phone…” she trailed off. Dr. David nodded. “You seem jumbled in your own thoughts!” He said. “So let’s start from the start! Let’s find the
Aries frantically pressed the buttons when Ace and Maria reached. “What’s wrong? Where is Veronica?” Maria panicked. “I don’t know!” Aries held his head. The entire crowd in the banquet hall freaked out, running around when the manager grabbed the mic to calm them. “Please, relax! It was a false fire alarm. Please calm down everyone!” He shouted and gradually the crowd was under control with the help of the hotel’s staff. “We need to leave!” Alfred held Cynthia’s hand. “Nothing to panic about! We’re good.” She said, and Isla watched them. Alfred glared at her. “Come with me!” He gritted and dragged them out. “What’s wrong with you?” Cynthia asked as the valet appeared with their car. Alfred didn’t say a word until they got into the car and sped away. “Alfred, are you going to say something?” She turned to him. Alfred looked ahead. “I saw Ace with Maria!” He appeared to be in deep thought. “Wh... Maria Vasquez?” Shocked, she asked Alfred, and the latter nodded. She covered her m
“So you could kill anyone for money, power, and status?” Jason walked over to Veronica with a glass of wine and handed it to her. “Not anyone. I’m not brutal, honey! The money, power, and status you’re talking about belong to me. I’m the bloody heiress, but my dear stepsister thinks she can snatch everything right under my nose.” Veronica’s voice was full of hate. “So, are we going to kill her?” Jason asked, taking a sip of his wine. “No! I’ll deal with her later.” Veronica said, her voice turning darker as she spoke every word. “I want to kill my father!” Jason had a look of horror crossing over his face. “What? Di-did I hear you right?” “He is the reason I’ve to become a killer to claim what I already own!” she bottomed up her drink and slammed the glass on the bar counter. “I fucking hate him so much! I want to strangle him to death.” “He is your real dad!” Jason turned to her. “But he left me to pamper his new wife and child!” Veronica countered. “He deserves to be dead. Any
[MATURE CONTENT AHEAD] Veronica took the sleeping pills and lay down on the bed. Her mind drifted back to Maria, Ace, and Aries, and she was remorseful for embarrassing them. The time they spent together like a family kept rolling in the back of her mind and she felt guilty for ditching Maria again. “She trusts Ace. She will be fine!” She tried to shut the voices in her head. “But Aries’s goal is to snatch the Glazier group from Cynthia and Alfred. He wanted to use me to get everything from them. What if Uncle Ace is also part of this?” “What if they’d harm Maria?” She panicked, sitting on the bed feeling suffocated. Her chest was heaving as she brushed her hair. “I did wrong leaving Maria! I can’t trust Graysons or Glaziers! How could I leave her to face everything all alone?” Her heart wanted to trust them, but her brain always advised against it. Minutes turned into an hour, but she hadn’t an ounce of sleep in her eyes. She took the bottle from the nightstand and took out anothe
The private jet landed and the rays of the sun hit Veronica’s face as she stepped out first. “What is this place?” She looked around and Aries smiled standing right behind her. “Quick!” Aries pushed, and she stepped down the stairs of the plane quickly. Aries wore his blue shades, and the bodyguards opened the door of the limousine for them. Veronica felt her heart thumping in her chest as their car hit the unknown road. “Are you going to kill me?” She looked in Aries’s direction and he gave her a ridiculous look. “You went to one of the most dangerous Mafias in the country and now you’re worried about your life with me?” He lifted an eyebrow, emphasizing more on the last word, and Veronica looked down. “I don’t believe this!” Aries looked out of the window, deeply hurt by the look of doubt in her eyes. During the entire ride, they didn’t exchange any words. Soon they reached the hotel and Aries was first to step out, slamming the door in her face, and she flinched at the sound. Th
Veronica stopped Aries’s fervent kisses and pushed his chest. “What do you mean contrary to what I like in women? Did you say I’m stupid but you still like me?” “I said I love you!” Aries said, caressing her cheeks. “But you called me stupid! Such an offensive proposal!” She creased her nose as Aries chuckled. “I’d never say yes….” Before she could complete it, Aries claimed her lips again. “Even your spirit would say yes to me!” he whispered against her lips, lifting her off the wall and turning her to the beautiful sunset. Veronica parted her lips, witnessing the beautiful crimson colors of the sun as it set in the deep blue waters of the Aegean Sea enlightened by the orange and red colors in the reddish sky. “It’s so gorgeous!” Veronica muttered. Aries was standing right behind her, his arms wrapped around her waist and Veronica put her head on his chest, taking a deep breath, her eyes fixed on the sun’s reflection in the blue water. “Excuse me,” the photographer approached the
“What do you want, Samantha?” Ace gritted his teeth as he walked out of the house to take her call. “I called to question your so-called upbringing based on which you won Aries’s custody case!” Samantha sounded furious. “Aries called me bitch! How dare he abuse his mother? Is this how you’ve raised my son?” “Our son!” Ace corrected her. “And he’s a thirty-year-old man now! Not a seven-year-old boy you left on the beach!” “Whatever! I want to speak to him. Ask him to pick up my goddamn call.” Samantha said and Ace drew a deep breath. His eyes traveled to Maria as she slid into the taxi. “Maria!” He cut off Samantha’s ranting and walked over to her. She stopped holding the car door and turned to him. “Where are you heading?” “Umm.. ah, just meeting some old friends over coffee.” She gave a tight smile and Ace put his hand over hers. “She just called to talk about Aries. Nothing else!” Ace said. “Of course! Aries connects you two, so it’s understandable.” She said. “I’ll see you la
Shane Glazier A hand put down fresh white iris on Shane’s grave and then moved to the next grave to put down the red roses. Rachel Glazier’s favorite red roses. Isla drew a deep breath, looking over their graves next to each other, and she recalled a missed take on Cynthia and Alfred’s deliberate attempt to keep her father away from the woman he loved, even after his death. She should’ve understood that they were cruel people who didn’t even care about the last wish of the dead man. It was she who firmly stood against them and did what her father wanted. To rest beside his beloved woman. “It will be my second honeymoon with Rachel!” Isla chuckled, recalling her father joking about his death and Veronica frowning. “Why do you always end up talking about death when I mention Mom?” Veronica knitted her eyebrows. “Death is the last truth of life! Why do you get so upset?” Shane asked. “Because I don’t want to lose you! I don’t want to lose anyone!” Veronica crossed her arms across h