LOGINCHAPTER 90 JENNA’S POV The sky looks dull today, almost like it’s mourning us and yet I wonder why it still hasn’t brightened up. It’s been roughly 30 minutes since Arden was lowered into the ground and yet the heavens haven’t still realized the sweet innocent soul it’s gained. How pathetic. Somehow I still hope to be shaken up from my sleep, to see this is all a dream, but it’s far too deep to be shaken from. It’s already a reality I can’t change. Most people are already leaving but I don’t move. I might even be mistaken for a woman who’d died sitting cause I’m perfectly still. My hands feel numb as they rest on my lap like they don’t belong to me. The only thing I feel is the suffocating stillness around me. Grandpa and Cassy had come by too and they'd been behind for a bit, long enough for Cassy to press a kiss to my cheek and grandpa to squeeze my shoulder before walking away quietly. My sunglasses held steadily across my nose, dark enough to conceal how much my ey
CHAPTER 89JENNA’S POV“She’s waking up.” I hear a voice say and it sounds like a woman. My vision is hazy, and I think I hit my head again, because the pain I feel right now is double of what it felt like before. I try to move, but my left arm feels a bit too heavy. I still try anyway and that’s when a sharp pain slices through me. I manage to look down to see what’s causing the pain. My arm is bound and a crimson color is mapped around the surface. It takes me less than a minute to properly regain my sense of self. Firstly, I’m in a hospital and secondly…..my brain goes fuzzy for a short while. I was shot! The last thing I heard were two loud bangs. Panic shoots through me almost instantly. Where’s Arden?I was holding him. I remember clearly now. “Where’s my son?” My voice sounds raspy that I don’t even remember it as my own. The nurse standing at the foot of my bed doesn’t say anything. She’s just looking at me with sadness in her eyes. Why’s she looking at me like that?
CHAPTER 88ADRIAN’S POV I slam my fist into the wall. “How the hell did she find out?” I growl to no one but my reflection. I tried to hide the cracks, made sure I wasn’t doing anything wrong and yet she still found out. I underestimated her and let my guard down and now she’d seen past me like a mirror. She knows about everything. The pills, my past, everything!I brush my hand through my hair and throw a chair across the room. The impact of it against the floor causes Arden to let out a loud cry. “Oh God! Shut up already!” I yell towards the crying child. My yelling doesn’t make it any better. I continue pacing around the room, regardless of the noise blaring between my ears and that’s when it dawns on me. A woman would do almost anything for her child. They were always so wired to be so emotional and I was going to use just that weakness against Jenna. I quickly pick up my phone and hold it towards the crying child’s face, with a gun pressed to near his head. He flinches, bu
CHAPTER 87JENNA’S POVI can feel my head splitting open. The ringing in my ears just seems to drown out my thoughts at once. “Arden,” I called out in realization. “My poor baby.”The next thing I’m hearing asides for the ringing are footsteps. Adrian is walking out. Maybe he heard me call out Arden’s name. My heart drops. “Adrian!” I choke out, still trying to drag myself across the floor. “Don’t touch my son! He’s not the one you want!”I don’t even know where the sudden burst of energy comes from but I appreciate it. And that’s when I feel it. The primal rage of a mother and my heart is pumping ten times than normal “If anything happens to Arden, I swear I’ll kill you!” By this time, Adrian has vanished from the room. My hands tremble and my head still hurts like crazy. I’ve got to find help somehow. My phone. Where’s my phone?I can’t stand, so I fumble on my sides searching for it, and luckily my fingers brushed against the back pocket of my jeans. Found it. I slid it o
CHAPTER 86JENNA’S POVMillie and I had continued to dig for days. An endless searched that carried on without relenting. We’d managed to find Contacts Millie still had from her time hiding, several records and addresses that could get us what we needed in order to gather enough evidence against Adrian. We couldn’t just go and file a report because the police would never believe two women with claims about a man drugging women and fleeing away with their money without solid proof. And today hadn’t prepared us for what we were about to find out. After a lot of cajoling and using few of the connections Millie and I had, we finally managed to get news about Adrian from one of the hospitals he worked. There was disciplinary report against him. It wasn’t just one, multiple of them. Adrian’s medical license had been revoked years ago due to sexual misconduct, Rape, and improper use of psychotropic substance of patients. I was stricken with shock that I couldn’t even keep my mouth shut.
CHAPTER 85ISABELLE’S POVI hear the door slam with the usual violent thud. Each step was already memorized and I knew exactly what came after the next. I didn’t even need to look at the clock to know Rob was back. He never came home gently anymore. And it had now become a routine since the last few weeks. Work frustrated him even more than before and he always carried that rage back home. Raw and loud, ready to unleash it at whatever stood in his way, so I always keep a good distance. Crashing objects now felt like a stress reliever, hence the clanking of objects against each other didn’t make me flinch as i would before. His safe space was the study, after taking one or shots of whiskey. And during that time, I’d learned to give him space first just so the fire in him would burn out before I approached. In a way I felt sad for him. Every part of him was crashing down and so was mine. Perhaps I didn’t need to feel sad, this could be the universe’s way to show us how much we’re m







