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
MARCUSThere's just something so satisfying about putting a woman in her place. It's the most therapeutic thing you could possibly do, and it's so refreshing to know that where she might have thought she had the upper hand on you, it was never even a competition. Some women just deserved to be remin
“Oh, feisty,” Marcus said with a smirk. “That’ll make this even more sweet when I destroy the two of you in the courtroom.”He turned to me with a sadistic grin, and asked in a cold, empty voice, “Did you miss me?”“Fuck you, Marcus!” I spat.I saw the vein ticking in his forehead, and the way he lo
“Ethan was always the more responsible one of the two,” she continued. “If he was the one who I instructed to work on his marriage, he would have done so without a question. But Marcus has always been difficult to control. And now, he has destroyed everything the two of you built together.”She reac
But that was exactly what I did. As soon as she left, I swept the entire apartment looking for hidden microphones or cameras. I checked through my clothes, my shoes and even the groceries. But there was nothing, and I ended up back in the living room with the entire apartment in a mess. I felt miser







