Share

Collateral Damage

Penulis: Lazywriter
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-26 22:57:29

[Tyler’s POV]

The silence of in our family mansion wasn't the peaceful kind. I sat on the edge of a velvet armchair, my head in my hands, listening to the rhythmic thump-thump of a rubber ball hitting the marble floor. Leena was sitting in the center of the foyer, surrounded by the designer suitcases Sarah had packed. The child looked too small for this house.

The house was cold. Even with the heat cranked up, the stone walls seemed to radiate a chill that no furnace could touch.

"Tyler? Where
Lanjutkan membaca buku ini secara gratis
Pindai kode untuk mengunduh Aplikasi
Bab Terkunci

Bab terbaru

  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   Everything Gone

    By the time I rounded the final industrial bend leading into the valley logistics sector, the night sky was no longer dark. It was a violent, pulsing shade of amber, stained by thick, rolling plumes of black smoke that choked out the remaining stars. I didn't need to look for the building. The fire was visible from a mile away. I slammed the brakes, the tires screeching as my car skidded to a halt diagonally across the access road, blocking a pair of arriving utility trucks. I threw the door open, stepping out into the cold night air, but the air wasn't cold here. A wave of intense, suffocating heat hit my face instantly, carrying the foul, chemical stench of burning insulation, melting plastic, and thousands of gallons of ruined seasonal stock. I just stood there. My hands dropped to my sides, my fingers twitching uselessly against the seams of my jeans. The world around me devolved into a chaotic, fragmented blur of sound and motion. Three massive fire engines were parked hapha

  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   Fire On The Mountain

    [ Tyler’s POV ] The constant, rhythmic beep... beep... beep... of the heart monitor had become the soundtrack to my existence over the last fourteen days. It was a sterile, hollow sound, but right now, it was the only thing keeping me from losing my mind. I sat in the uncomfortable chair pulled flush against the side of the hospital bed, my fingers loosely intertwined with Sarah’s. Her hand was cold, her skin pale, almost translucent under the harsh fluorescent lights of the intensive care unit. A thick white bandage was still taped securely across her hairline, hiding the jagged stitches from the night I found her bleeding out in the dark valley woods. For two weeks, this had been my ritual. I watched the steady, shallow rise and fall of her chest beneath the thin hospital blanket. I monitored every twitch of her fingers, every slight flutter of her eyelids, desperately searching for any sign that the woman I loved was fighting her way back to the surface. The doctors called it a

  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   The Sins Of The Mother

    "One year has changed a lot, hasn't it?" I said, the venom dripping from my words as I wiped the wet hair from my face, my eyes locking onto hers with all the unresolved fury of a woman who had never gotten her closure. "Because why is Lucy suddenly trying to help me? Why are you playing the protector now? Does the fact that you’re trapped on this miserable beach suddenly erase everything you did before your death? Does being dead give you a clean slate, Lucy?"Lucy’s jaw tightened, the familiar, stubborn pride I remembered from our university days flaring in her eyes. "I did what I did because I was human, Sarah. I didn't know any better. I was consumed by revenge.""Unbelievable," I breathed, shaking my head, a raw, burning tears stinging my eyes. "You didn't know better? You were my best friend since university! You were like a sister to me.""What do you want from me, Sarah?" Lucy yelled back, her voice finally breaking through that eerie, dead detachment, rising to match the ang

  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   Hanging Out With The Dead

    [ Sarah’s POV ] I didn't look back. I turned and sprinted into the blinding white, my heart hammering a frantic, terrifying rhythm against my ribs as the final, long blast of the trumpet echoed through the collapsing clouds.The glass beneath my feet violently ruptured, dissolving into nothing as the floor completely dropped out from under me. The sudden shift in gravity sent my stomach climbing into my throat. I didn’t fall back into my hospital room. I fell through pitch darkness, plunging headfirst into an icy, suffocating void.*SPLASH. SPLASH.* The impact was brutal, a shock of freezing, heavy water slamming into my chest and tearing the remaining air from my lungs. I broke the surface, gasping, coughing violently as brine burned my throat. Angry waves tossing me around like a rag doll.The weight of my clothes was dragging me under. I kicked frantically, my arms flailing against the relentless, rolling tide, trying desperately to keep my chin above the water line. Every time I

  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   Run Sarah! Run!

    [ Sarah’s POV ]I closed my eyes, trying to force my consciousness back through the thick, milky fog of my life before now. I tried to reach past the silence, past the smell of the roses, searching for the last anchor point of my reality. "I was... I was in the car," I murmured, the images returning in broken, violent fragments. "We were on the highway back to the estate. Dex was driving. We were talking about the buildings, about the traffic... and then a car came up behind us. High beams. Blue lights. There was metal... and a man with a mask... and then the world started to spin." I opened my eyes, the terror of the highway reflecting in my pupils. "That's all I can remember. I remember the car rolling." "They want you dead, Sarah," My Mom said, her voice dropping into a hard, protective tone that I recognized from my childhood. "The people in your life who smile at you. The people whose toes you've stepped on. They want you gone, and they think they’ve won." "But you cannot give

  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   In The Afterlife

    [ Sarah’s POV ]One second I was trapped in the suffocating, freezing dark of the woods, the smell of blood and mud thick in my throat, and the next minute, the pain simply stopped.It vanished entirely, leaving behind a lightness that felt unnatural, almost heavy in its absence.I opened my eyes, my boots clean, dry, and entirely devoid of the mud from the ditch... and stepped onto a floor that looked like solid glass, covered in a low, swirling mist that clung to my ankles like milk. The air didn't smelled like lilies and roses.Above me, there was no sky, only vast, towering pillars of white clouds that shifted in slow, silent syn, illuminated by a source of light that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once."Dex?" I called out, my voice sounding strangely flat, the echo swallowed instantly by the vastness of the space. "Tyler?"Nobody answered.I started walking, my legs moving without pain. The fractured ankle I had been dragging through the brush just moments ago had

  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   Ex wife vs New wife Battle

    [Sarah’s POV] I knelt on the damp grass of the private cemetery, the cold seeping through the fabric of my suit pants, but I didn't care. I needed this. I needed to be somewhere where the titles of CEO and Vineyard Queen didn't matter."We did it, Mom," I whispered, my fingers tracing the carved l

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-28
  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   Is This Jealousy?

    [Sarah’s POV]The smell of old wood and lavender usually made the house feel like a sanctuary, but today, the air was sharp with the scent of unwashed rain and expensive soap.I stood by the window of Caleb’s playroom, watching the silver SUV pull to a stop.Tyler stepped out, looking smaller than

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-04-05
  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   What Are You Hiding Dear Wife?

    [Tyler’s POV]The gravel of the Hale driveway crunched under the tires of the SUV, a sound like grinding teeth. Through the rearview mirror, the house stood tall and defiant against the orange hue of the setting sun. The steering wheel felt cold under my palms. My fingers still carried the faint,

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-04-05
  • Divorced With His Heir In My Belly   For Your Sake

    [TYLER’S POV]The penthouse felt different today. Usually, the scent of expensive lilies and floor wax offered a sense of order, but now, the air was stagnant, heavy with the metallic tang of betrayal. The marble floors echoed with a hollow click as the front door swung shut.Silence greeted the fo

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-04-04
Bab Lainnya
Jelajahi dan baca novel bagus secara gratis
Akses gratis ke berbagai novel bagus di aplikasi GoodNovel. Unduh buku yang kamu suka dan baca di mana saja & kapan saja.
Baca buku gratis di Aplikasi
Pindai kode untuk membaca di Aplikasi
DMCA.com Protection Status