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The place she learnt to hate

Author: Cynthia James
last update publish date: 2026-09-17 18:51:40

The compound looked exactly the way Daniella remembered it.

That was the first thing that frightened her.

The same tall iron gates. The same cracked stone walls. The same line of trees leading toward the main building. Even from the car, she could remember where every room was located. She had spent years here. Years being taught how to fight, how to lie, how to manipulate, how to survive.

And somewhere inside this place, her uncle had hidden the second ledger.

Christian parked several meters a
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  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    The Man who started it

    Daniella couldn’t move.Her father’s handwriting covered the final page of the ledger, but the words seemed impossible to understand.Because I know who started it.Her eyes remained fixed on the sentence.Christian reached for the ledger, but Daniella pulled it closer.“Derrick knew,” she whispered.Bennett stood silently across the room.Daniella looked at him. “Who started Raven?”Bennett didn’t answer.“Tell me.”“I think your father wanted you to discover that yourself.”“My father is dead.”“And that’s why he left the evidence.”Christian stepped forward. “Enough games, Bennett. Who started Raven?”Bennett’s gaze moved between them.“Raven wasn’t created by one person.”Daniella’s frustration exploded.“You keep saying that! I know Raven is an organization. I know there were people involved. I’m asking who started it.”Bennett slowly exhaled.“Your father believed it began with a private group of businessmen and officials who wanted influence beyond what money could buy. They we

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    Bennett’s Explanation

    Bennett stood in the doorway with a calm smile, as though he had been expecting them to arrive all along. Behind him, two armed men blocked the entrance, making it clear that escaping would not be easy.Daniella held the ledger tightly against her chest.Christian stepped in front of her. “You knew we’d come here.”Bennett’s smile widened. “I knew eventually you would.”“You followed us,” Marcus said.“No. I followed the ledger.”Daniella stepped around Christian, her eyes fixed on Bennett. “You funded my training.”Bennett’s expression barely changed.“Yes.”“You watched me grow up.”“Yes.”“You knew my uncle killed my father.”A pause.“Yes.”The answer hit harder than Daniella expected.“You knew everything,” she whispered.“I knew enough.”“You knew he was lying to me.”“I did.”“You knew I believed Christian killed my father.”Bennett looked at Christian before returning his attention to Daniella.“That belief was necessary.”Christian’s jaw tightened. “Necessary for what?”“For

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    The place she learnt to hate

    The compound looked exactly the way Daniella remembered it.That was the first thing that frightened her.The same tall iron gates. The same cracked stone walls. The same line of trees leading toward the main building. Even from the car, she could remember where every room was located. She had spent years here. Years being taught how to fight, how to lie, how to manipulate, how to survive.And somewhere inside this place, her uncle had hidden the second ledger.Christian parked several meters away from the entrance and switched off the engine. He looked at Daniella before opening his door.“You don’t have to go inside.”Daniella looked at him. “Yes, I do.”“You’ve already been through enough.”“This is where it started.” Her voice was steady. “This is where he made me believe you killed my father. If the second ledger is here, then I need to see it with my own eyes.”Christian studied her for a moment before nodding. “Then we go together.”They entered through a damaged section of the

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    What Thomas said

    The memory card remained on the table long after the video ended.Nobody spoke.Daniella could still hear her father’s voice in her head. He isn’t the enemy.For years, she had believed the opposite.Christian had been the face she attached to every painful memory, every sleepless night, every lesson her uncle forced into her. She had been taught to look at Christian and see the man responsible for destroying her family.Now she knew the truth.He had never been the man she was supposed to hate.He had simply been the man they needed her to hate.Christian picked up the ledger again and turned to the page bearing his grandfather’s name.“Thomas hid something,” he said.Daniella nodded. “And Raven has been searching for it.”“Which means whatever he hid could expose them.”Marcus stepped closer. “Or destroy whatever protection they still have.”Daniella looked at him. “Where would Thomas have hidden something important?”Christian didn’t answer immediately.His eyes remained fixed on t

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    The truth inside

    The envelope felt heavier than it should have.Daniella stared at it in her hands while the others remained silent around her. The old hospital corridor was still dark, the emergency lights casting faint red shadows across the walls. Victor Hale was gone, leaving behind more questions than answers, but for the first time, Daniella wasn’t interested in chasing him.Her father had left something for her.Something he had wanted her to find only when she was ready to know everything.Christian stepped closer. “Open it.”Daniella looked at him.There was something different in his eyes now. He was still guarded, still carrying the pain of everything she had done, but he hadn’t walked away. Even after discovering that she had entered his home with the intention of destroying him, he had stayed.She slowly opened the envelope.Inside was a small memory card and a folded sheet of paper.Her hands trembled as she unfolded it.Daniella,If you’re reading this, then the truth has finally caught

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    The man in the dark

    The door opened another inch, and Daniella’s heart slammed against her ribs. Christian stood directly in front of her, his weapon aimed at the doorway while Marcus and Richard covered the other side of the room. Nobody spoke. The darkness beyond the door seemed to stretch endlessly into the corridor.Then the man stepped inside.The emergency lights flickered on, revealing a tall figure dressed in a dark coat. Daniella’s breath caught. She knew him. Not from the photographs and not from her uncle’s files, but from her childhood. Christian lowered his weapon slightly in disbelief.“That can’t be possible.”The man looked at him calmly. “Hello, Christian.”Richard’s face drained of color. “Victor.”Daniella immediately looked at Richard. “Victor Hale?”The man smiled. “That’s the name they gave me.”Daniella’s eyes narrowed. “They?”Victor took another step into the room. “Raven.”Christian’s expression hardened. “You were supposed to be dead.”“I was.”Richard stared at him. “I watched

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    13 Years ago….

    “This will be your room” the older woman spoke as she pushed a door at the end of the hall way open Daniella walked in her eyes observing the entire room, she said nothing to the woman and only nodded. “Don’t you speak?” The woman asked honestly Daniella has been too quiet for her liking and it w

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    The Selection

    “Stand straight. If you slouch again you’d walk out of that door and never return.” The girl behind Daniella adjusted herself immediately.“I’m sorry,” she whispered, turning her face around to make sure she didn’t embarrass herself in front of the other girls. “Sorry? Really?” another voice scof

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    Smoke under Silence

    “Boss, are you okay?”David's voice sounded distant, more like it was coming from under water. Christian didn’t answer immediately. His fingers tightened around the glass, his jaw clenched as he stared into thin air unfocused. He wasn’t ok, he couldn’t take it anymore, his

  • In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer    Humiliation and Heat

    The hot liquid hit her skin before her brain could process what was happening. “Aharhhhh!” Daniella staggered back instantly, the tray slipping slightly from her grip as the coffee soaked into her cloth. She glared at him hard, tears building up in her eye lids, a smirk escaping her lips, of

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