LOGINEmily's POV I immediately shook my head. "No." My voice trembled. "I don't want to." The guard didn't care. He gently pushed me inside. I turned around at once. "Wait!" "I'm innocent!" My voice rose. "I didn't kill Noah!" The iron door slammed shut in front of me. Bang! The sound made me freeze. I immediately ran to the bars and gripped them tightly. "Please!" "I didn't mean to do it!" "Please let me out!" I cried and screamed. Yet the corridor remained silent. No one answered. No one cared. Slowly, I sank onto the floor. My sobs grew louder. I wrapped my arms around my knees. I was truly alone. Robert had left me. Rachel hated me. Now, I couldn't even forgive myself anymore. I covered my face with both hands. Yet the harder I tried to forget everything, the clearer Noah's image became. His face. His smile. Then Sienna's vo
Emily’s POV The smell of metal and damp air hit me the moment I stepped inside that place. A prison. A place I had only ever seen on television. Now, I was standing inside it. "No." I shook my head over and over again. This couldn't be happening. I wasn't a criminal. I wasn't a murderer. I had simply lost control that day. I immediately turned toward the officer walking beside me. My voice echoed through the long corridor. "You arrested the wrong person!" "I didn't mean to do it!" The officer kept walking without even looking at me. Panic immediately began to rise inside me. "I'm innocent!" Tears streamed down my face. My voice cracked as I pleaded. "Please listen to me!" Still, there was no response. The handcuffs
Sienna's POV I saw my face in the glass. My eyes were puffy. My face seemed white and tired. I could hardly know myself now. Just a couple weeks ago, I was thinking about simple things. I was thinking about the family dinner. I was thinking about a job. I was thinking about Noah getting near me again. Now all of this felt like a different person's life. It seemed really far away. Liam gently ran his thumb on the back of my hand. That little act made my throat feel tight again. I knew he was trying to stop me from breaking down. I felt thankful for that. Because if I had been by myself, I didn't know if I could have gotten this far. Some days felt like too much. Outside, the streets got busier as we got near the city. Cars came by us from the other way.
Sienna's POV I still felt like I was standing only because I was used to it. Not because I was really strong.Outside the villa I could hear the waves crashing against the shore. It was a sound.It was at odds with the chaos inside the house. Everything around us seemed wrong.Emily slowly lifted her face again. Her eyes were red and filled with despair. "I lost everything."Fresh tears slipped down her cheeks. Her voice was shaking as she tried to speak."Robert left " Her lips were shaking a lot. She looked like she could barely hold herself together."Rachel left me too " I didn't say anything. For the time I realized that Emily was truly alone.Completely alone. There was no one left standing beside her.That loneliness didn't happen overnight. It was built by her choices over many years.Piece by piece. One
Sienna's POVMy body felt completely drained after everything that had happened. I stood there staring at Emily as she collapsed on the floor.She was. Screaming and clutching her head while shaking it over and over again.I could not feel anything anymore. The pain inside me had become too much to bear.All I could think about was Noah. I wished Noah was still alive.If only Noah had not gone back to get his phone that afternoon. If only I had stopped Noah for a little longer."Sienna."Liams voice was gentle. I did not even realize when Liam had moved to stand beside me.Liam pulled me into his arms slowly. The moment he did all the strength I had been holding onto finally broke.I cried. My sobs broke against Liams chest.Those were the tears I had been holding back since I stepped into this house. My hands gripped Liams shirt tightly."N
Sienna's POV "You had Liam. You had Noah. You had a family." Her voice got louder with every word.Then she pointed at herself. Tears kept falling from her eyes."What did I have?" "Robert divorced me. Rachel hated me. I lost everything." Her face hurt with pain.I shook my head as I cried. Nothing could make what she did okay."So you killed my son?" My voice shook.Emily covered her ears. She looked really horrified."I didn't want to." Her voice cracked."I was angry. I hated seeing all of you happy." She said this. It felt like it echoed through the whole room.My heart felt like it stopped. I stared at her. I could not believe it.Emily fell to the floor. Her crying got louder."I stepped on the gas." Her voice trembled."Then everything happened fast." She put her face in her hands.I steppe
Sienna's POV “The idea can be straightforward yet it requires a narrative," Emily remarked as she browsed the images. "We aim to showcase your identity as an author. Nothing. Inconsistent, with who you are.”My fingers nervously played with the corner of the paper laid out befo
Sienna's POVThe moment the doors of the publisher building shut behind me I released a sigh I’d been keeping inside since earlier. It seemed like all my energy had been sapped during that meeting not due to the conversation itself but because Emily’s unexpected arrival stirred up old feeling
Sienna's POV “I'm just scared of hoping much " I murmured softly. "Scared that if I begin to think I deserve happiness I’ll realize that I don’t.”“If anything vanishes," Liliana answered softly, "it won’t happen due to your desires. It will occur because it wasn’t destined for
Sienna's POV That morning began with a warm kind of bustle. Noah trotted around holding his bag, while Liam tried to button his shirt with one hand and fix Noah’s hair with the other. I chuckled softly watching such a simple scene, yet one that always managed to calm my heart.“Daddy, my







