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
ETHANI know I can be a cynic sometimes. I don’t try to do it on purpose, but it just happens. Even when I’m not trying to think about the worst things that could possibly happen, I find myself going through them like a list sometimes, wondering how everything could get destroyed. With Liv, I tried
“What are you planning to do?” I asked, to which he simply shrugged. “You’ll find out.”“Marcus, don’t do anything you’ll regret,” I said. “I’m bored of this conversation,” he said. “If that will be all, I think I’ll be heading out.”“Wait,” I said as he started to stand up. He turned and faced me
“What’s so funny?” Ethan asked as we sat down beside them. “Oh, Blake was just telling me about the time you guys got lost in Bali,” she said. “I can’t believe you guys got arrested with a truckload of drugs.”“We didn’t know there were drugs in the car when we rented it,” Ethan said, taking my han
“These last few years have been hell,” she said quietly. “Your father passed away so abruptly, you left without telling any of us why, Marcus had to take over the company and we were all stuck in limbo. It seems like we were completely shattered in the space of a few months. And now, finally, it see







