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
“Hi, Chris,” I said. “I didn’t know you had lunch here.”“I don’t,” he said. “But when I found out you always have a bagel and coffee right here, I realised that there must be something special about this place. So here I am.”“So you’re stalking me?” I asked. “More like closely observing,” he said
“You don’t have to be involved in the marketing aspect,” I said. “You just handle the money, and I’ll handle everything else.”“You’re crazy,” she laughed, shutting her laptop and turning to face me. “I can’t believe I’m actually considering this.”“I’m not going to force you, Rach,” I said. “At the
“And so what?” she scoffed. “He’s still a guy, isn’t he? And last time I checked, he’s the one who’s interested in you, not the other way round.”“I know,” I sighed. “But what am I supposed to do? He’s my brother in-law.”“Ex,” she corrected. “You’re not married to his brother anymore, remember?”“I
“Fuck!” she exclaimed, breathing heavily. “That was… wow!”I didn’t say anything. I simply stared straight ahead, thinking about what had just happened. My hands were still shaking, and my vision was blurred as I tried to push the image of Liv out of my head. But no matter how hard I tried, I just c







