로그인The sound of her heels echoed softly against the floor, swallowed whole by the sterile silence of the prison hallway. Each step felt like it was slowly bringing her closer to hell, but her back stayed straight and her head stayed high. She passed rows of locked doors, steel bars and bored guards, an
Three Months Later The fabric was soft against my skin, and so breathtaking that I couldn’t take my eyes off it. I sat in front of the vanity, my hands folded in my lap and trying to breathe evenly as the stylist added one final pin to my hair. I'd always thought I'd cry on my wedding day, but I ha
I was still holding Ethan's hand when the door creaked open again. At first, I thought it was a nurse or maybe a detective back with some update about Marcus's arraignment. But then I saw a cane, and a face I hadn't expected to ever see again. Richard Jones. Ethan froze beside me as he stepped int
I could have sworn I was dead. But then I found myself waking up in a room that was too white and too quiet, and the air smelled like disinfectant and something sterile that clung to the back of my throat. My body ached in too many places to count, and I wasn't sure at first if I was dreaming or i
When I opened the door to my office, I half-expected a ghost. But the man sitting across from my desk wasn't a ghost, even though he looked eerily familiar. He was in his mid to late fifties, wearing a sharp blazer with a well-kept salt and pepper beard, and the kind of eyes that looked like they ha
CALLAHAN The cold hit me the second I stepped outside, but I lit the cigarette anyway. I hadn't touched one in over three years (not since the Donovan case) but something about watching a pregnant woman get wheeled out on a stretcher with a bullet hole through her chest just made the craving imposs
"You really thought you could get away from me?" he asked breathlessly and mockingly, water still streaming from his hair and down his face, his shirt clinging to his skin like it had melted there. "You really thought you'd swim across a whole fucking lake and just disappear into the night?" I didn
MARCUS As I signed the divorce papers, I could have sworn that I felt a sense of relief. Finally, the lying bitch who made me believe that she was carrying my child would be out of my life. And I could regain my sanity again. The papers sat on the table, and I brushed my fingers through my hair a
And when I did, I was going to beat the crap out of him and rip his fucking throat out. I didn’t care that we were brothers. If he’d hurt the woman I loved in any way, then he had to pay. "Carlos," I said, “do you mind if I check Marcus's room for a bit?" “What for?” he asked, his eyes widening i
The sun was beginning to set by the time the door creaked open again, and the light that poured into the room spilled over the dust that floated lazily through the air, catching gold against the shadows that had grown long across the wooden floor. I didn't move. I didn't even lift my head. I just li







