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
“They haven’t seen each other in years,” I said. “And Marcus hates his guts. He never even spoke about him. And you remember me telling you how he always made sure his pictures were taken down whenever we were visiting their family home?”“Oh yeah,” she said. “Well, if he also hates Marcus, then he’
“I can’t come back now,” I said. “I’m sure things aren’t bad. The media is just exaggerating, like they always do.”“Trust me, it’s worse,” he said. “Reynard Tech will go bankrupt within the next few months if something isn’t done to fix the mess your brother made. And we both know the only person w
He laughed as he handed me the flowers, and I almost didn’t accept them. But I did, and I thanked him as he interlocked our arms together. “I spent the entire day wondering what would be an appropriate way to spend your last day in Paris,” he said. “But at the end of the day, I realised that it doe
“We should get some sleep,” I said as I finished packing. “Our flight is really early tomorrow.”“Right,” she said, as we walked out of the closet together. “You’ll have to wake me up though. I’m pretty sure I’m going to sleep in if you don’t.”“Sure,” I said. “I’ll wake you up.”She hugged me befor







