Se connecterThe 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
I hadn't slept in three days. Not really, anyway. I'd close my eyes and pretend, but every time I drifted even slightly, I'd jerk awake thinking I'd heard her voice or the sound of her footsteps, only to remember she was still gone and the house was still too quiet. My head was spinning from lack of
"No, it is," I snapped. "You got her pregnant, and then you disappeared. You let us believe we were Michael Reynard's sons. You let us mourn him like we actually belonged to him." "I was trying to protect you," he said. "Your mother made it clear she didn't want me involved. I respected her wishes.
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
I heard the sound of the lock turning before I saw the door open, and every muscle in my body tensed as Marcus’s silhouette filled the doorway, his shadow stretching across the wooden floor slowly. He was holding something in his hands, and when I craned my neck, I saw that it was a plate of food







