Masuk“What do you mean put him down?” I stared at my aunt. “You did not say anything about putting anyone down. I am here to steal the Rosetta file.”
“And how do you intend to do that?”
I stared at her, stunned.
“You expect me to commit murder?” I whispered, as my head spun.
“Who said anything about murder.” Her eyes went hard. “And what is wrong with murder?”
“What?”
“You are forgetting yourself, girl.” She let out a dark smile, a smile that reminded me too much of Dean, and a shiver ran through me.
“If I say jump, you say how freaking high.” She leaned in to stare in my eyes. “Your life is mine, Olivia.”
“Take it,” I said, as the first tears jumped into my eyes.&
OLIVIAColt was humming as he moved around the kitchen on our first day back in the US.I watched Morvian beside him filleting a fish with quick wrist movements. He had grown up to Colt’s chest height in half a year.Almost like the growth spurt had been waiting for just this opportunity.Smiling, I pushed away from the island and told them I would like to walk the garden for a few minutes.But just as I reached the front door, the doorbell rang.I pulled it open“Henry?” my eyes were wide as I stared at Colt’s former chief guard, who had supposedly left to join the army.“Mrs Fletcher,” he bowed, smiling.“Sonsy?” Colt came up behind me, “Who is...” He froze at the door.“Fucking hell, Henry,” he hurried past me to draw the man into a hug, p
There were resin sculptures of all the body parts Leonardo had taken from these women.Salt flooded my mouth, my stomach turning at the sight of these sculptures displayed like art all over this inner room.My vision swam, my heart racing at the knowledge that before the day was over, I would join them.“You’re not begging for your life?” He stopped my seat in the middle of the room, and walked around to stand in front of me. “That’s a first."“There really are alligators in that river.” I stared up at him, my perception sharper now that I was about to die. “It wasn’t a joke, that’s where you dispose of all the bodies.”“Is that what you care about? You care about analytics even now, chairwoman?” He gave a teasing smile.My eyes fixed on him, hating him. Hating him because that's all I could do now. I could not save myself.
It was a lake house.With a shimmering lake in the sunset that reminded me of the last full day I had with Colt. And it almost felt like a joke, a horrible joke.That he would bring me here when I most missed Colt, when I was mourning the future we could have had?Leonardo came from behind me now and kissed my cheek where Colt would have held me from the back so I could lean into him.Fuck! What was with all this comparison?And why was I thinking of him more than I had ever done in the past months? Or…I restrained myself from picking up my phone and calling his penitentiary. I hadn’t done that so far because if I wanted Leonardo’s absolute trust, he had to be convinced Colt was my past.Also, there was still that other fact that Colt lied to me.Regardless of his reasons, he lied. He watched me, kn
COLTIt’s been exactly two months since Olivia left me for Rossi.Well, that sounded a bit more dramatic than how she went about it.She arrived at my holding facility, and sat behind the glass in the visitation booth to tell me she had gone back to the Iron Rose for help.Not only would they get her the Rosetta, they would lead her to the surgeon we had been unable to find for almost a year. But in exchange, she had to do everything to make Rossi trust her.And so my nightmare began.The two began dating immediately, and every damn day I had to hear news about their relationship from my cellmates who were obsessed with her.And during my two court sessions so far, as I was being led out to the police van, pressmen ran after me, to pepper me with questions about it.DO YO
COLTIt was morning when a cop finally led me out of the interrogation room to be booked for my first appearance and possible detention before trial.Olivia was the first visitor, but there was something different in her eyes. “You lied to me.” Her eyes flashed through the cell bars.I stared at her, feeling the oddest of emotions, relief.She knew.She knew, and now I didn’t have to carry this huge burden of guilt around anymore. We stared at each other, and then she started crying again.“Do you realize you just ruined everything for us?” Her hand tightened around the jail bar. “Colt, why!” She yelled angrily, “You could have just told me.”I stared at her, no longer certain why I did any of it anymore. Male ego? The masculine pride I had lost to those men in that sauna, which I was still trying so hard to restore, by making myself non-dismissible and competent. Or did I genuinely do this because I deeply cared about her and didn’t want her to get hurt.She wiped her eyes now. “
OLIVIAI could hear my own voice echoing back to me from the valley below, but I could not feel my voice, or my face. I fell back to the rock, my legs unable to hold me up anymore, but I felt nothing even though when I looked down, my forearms were bruised and bleeding.The last inch of the sun stood where Tara had been standing just a second ago.“Baby, baby.” I heard the baritone as large hands grabbed me, and I shrieked again, before my eyes fixed on those hazel eyes. “I did not push her, I did not push her.” I gasped. “I know, I know Sonsy,” Colt said, trying to hug me. “I saw everything.” But I pushed him away, hurrying to my feet. He did not understand. This crazy woman lured me to the top of this cliff at gunpoint as soon as I arrived at this park and realized it wasn’t Colt who had invited me here to watch the sunset together.At the point where I realized I had just fallen for the same trick he did weeks ago. Tara lured me here with a believable voice message. And the c







