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
At exactly midday, Ethan pushed the door open and walked into my office, a bouquet of roses in one hand and a teddy bear in another. He was grinning like a lunatic, and my heart leapt at the sight of him. “Hi baby,” he said waving the roses about. “I come bearing…” He never got to finish his sent
ETHAN As soon as I hung up, I shut the laptop and headed out of the office. I had already canceled all my meetings, so I was free for the day. All I needed to do was handle the one thing that still remained. The car was already waiting in the garage, and I hopped in without telling the driver whe
On the day of our Santorini trip, I woke up with the worst headache in the history of mankind. It felt like someone was trying to split my skull in half, and a wave of nausea came over me. I didn’t know what exactly was happening to me, so I downed some aspirin and forced a smile to myself. But th
One thing I'd never really gotten used to was the idea of just how famous the Reynards were. And a byproduct of that was that any action someone in the family took, it was bound to cause shockwaves all over the internet and the media. Barely 24 hours had gone past since Ethan became the sole owner







