LOGINThe 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
The result of that extravagant wedding was that Reynard Tech went into a downward spiral, crippling the company and causing stocks to crash. At the time, I thought it would be worth it. But now, looking back on everything, marrying Emily might just have killed the company. But it would be worth it
“I have just one question for you, Marcus,” I said, never breaking his gaze. “I’m listening,” he replied icily. “Did you ever love me, or was it all just a plot to humiliate me?” He tilted his head to the side, and the corner of his lips twitched. I wondered what he found amusing exactly, and wha
I stepped out of the shower to find that Emily had fallen asleep already, and I didn’t bother waking her up. I simply got dressed, kissed her on the forehead, then headed downstairs. “Good morning, sir,” Carlos said as I walked into the dining room. “Shall I serve the breakfast immediately, or woul
I was never much of a party person. I hated the booming music that seemed to reverberate through my chest, and the suffocating heat of dozens of people packed into a tight room like sardines. Having a sweaty stranger pressed up against you and breathing heavily down your neck was not my idea of a fu







