MasukThe 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 can see that,” he said with a slight chuckle as Blake stepped forward and shook his hand. “How’s your dad?”“He’s good,” she replied. “I’ll tell him you swung by.”“I’d appreciate that,” he said, smiling at her. I was just getting relieved that the awkwardness had passed when Ethan suddenly appea
I turned away as I balled my hands into fists, memories of that horrible night creeping up once again. I didn’t want to think about it again, so I took a deep breath and slid the file towards him. “Richard is trying to force you out of the company,” I said. “I’ve done what I can to stop him, but we
Maybe it was just the gala that had everyone in a good mood. I was certainly looking forward to it. The last time I’d attended was right after high-school graduation, when father decided that we need to start dipping our toes in the business world. He wanted to introduce us to the Bezos family, the
“I’m so sorry, Rach,” I said. “I wish I could snap my fingers and make it all go away. I wish I could give you everything you wanted right now, and I hate that you feel this way.”“It’s not your fault,” she said, patting my arm. “I’m a fucking mess. It’s going to take a lot more than duct tape to fi







