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
"I can't believe you did something like this," Ciara snapped. "How could you have been so reckless?"She was stomping around the kitchen, her bottom lip trembling so much that it seemed like she was going to burst at any moment. I wished Brenda hadn't left, so I wouldn't be the only one on the recei
I was fully prepared for the uproar that the divorce would create. I prepared myself for the shitstorm that was headed my way, and I thought I would have it all figured out. But all of that changed the moment the news got out. Suddenly, I was being hounded by paparazzi everywhere I went. I thought
“Oh, feisty,” Marcus said with a smirk. “That’ll make this even more sweet when I destroy the two of you in the courtroom.”He turned to me with a sadistic grin, and asked in a cold, empty voice, “Did you miss me?”“Fuck you, Marcus!” I spat.I saw the vein ticking in his forehead, and the way he lo
He pressed his entire body against me, and the heat was so intense that it was suffocating me. I could t think straight, and I couldn’t even look up at him as I desperately tried to push him away. “Nice work with the camera, by the way” he chuckled. “Emily and I weren’t even aware that it was still







