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CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

Author: Laine Martin
last update publish date: 2026-03-23 21:09:40

The days were blurring into each other. It had been week two of lying in bed, mourning the loss of my parents and the murderer. Two weeks without stepping a foot outside, not even to work. Two weeks of isolation and glum. The crushing reality that I couldn’t be with Jack was asphyxiating. Where was I going to find a love this intoxicating? This electrifying? This consuming? Then again, I couldn’t betray my parents any longer. I couldn’t be disloyal to their memories by staying in a relationship
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  • Love, Obsession, Torture   CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR

    ROBIN’S POVI huffed, collapsing into my seat, and lolling my head back, gazing up at the ceiling. It was too early to go back to work, Lana had upbraided me. But nowhere was safe for me, for my heart, for my emotions, nowhere. Every corner reminded me of him! My bathroom, the kitchen, my bed… heck, our couch. The whole house gave off his scent, it ricocheted off every material in my room, haunting me. I missed him, I was trying not to make it obvious by doing a terrible job and failing miserably. The Confectionery was a refuge, a safe place, though I wasn’t going to pretend my office didn’t carry the enormity of our memories. Even so, it got my mind off things for some few hours before the destructive thoughts plagued my mind again. Was I in a dwam? Or ruminating? Definitely ruminating because when the swing door was thrust open and Brandon tripped in, no sound reached me save for his usual smooth voice asking if I was okay.“You failed to knock again.”“I did actually, twice. Are yo

  • Love, Obsession, Torture   CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE

    ROBIN’S POV“If a DNA test will put your beautiful mind at ease, I’ll do it. I have my faults, Robin, but I’d never abandon a child if I truly thought it was mine. Lois is a fucking lair!”“A test is going to clear that. Until then… I want you to stay away from me.”“Robin…”“No! I don’t want to hear anymore, Jack. Get out of here! I want to rest.” I dragged the covers over my battered body, thankful the drugs were sedatives. I couldn’t battle this treacherous heartache with my eyes wide open.“Can I at least give you a kiss?”I gulped. I wanted him to. I didn’t want him to. I didn’t want him to get the wrong idea. I was only going to relax around him only when the test revealed he wasn’t the father. But I dropped dead quiet, mouth lax when my body betrayed me with a nod to his request.“Thank you.” He leaned in, planting a long chaste kiss on my temple and cheek. “You have my life in your hands, Robin, never forget that. I’d never hurt you, not intentionally.” Then he was gone, even

  • Love, Obsession, Torture   CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO

    JACK’S POVMy heart leaped into my taut throat, causing a speech impairment. I stared back into her angelic eyes, the eyes that captured me, derailed me, made me powerless against feelings I should have killed months ago after laying eyes on her. My own eyes glistened. I’d never been this elated in all my fucked-up life, hunched over the woman that kept my heart beating.Gazing into her deep brown eyes, our stares locked in time, tears rolling onto her face, and gliding to her neck as I continued to stare and tear up, relief flowing through me. Moving lower down, I pressed my face against her forehead, rolling gently across hers and silently thanking the miracle gods for bringing my life back to me. Now I could breathe, now I could relax my tensed body, now I could think straight again, the excruciating pain in my chest subsiding. Crashing my pasty, face into her neck, I wrapped my arms around her, settling my head against her chest, willing my erratic heartbeat to slowly return to de

  • Love, Obsession, Torture   CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE

    JACK’S POV“Jack,” Ransford’s sympathetic voice sounded. I tipped my head up from the bending position, eyes welling, falling into the doctor’s face.“Is she going to make it?” I asked the gut-wrenching question. I couldn’t feel my body anymore, I may as well be dead.“She’s stable, however we had to force the coma to protect the brain from further damage and to heal faster, helping the babies receive a consistent flow of blood and oxygen. We’ll conduct more CT scans, also replace the lost of blood with transfusion.”“Will she come around after all that?” Lana asked, throwing a solemn look across the doctor.“She’ll have to decide that. After all is said and done, her body can only decide. All we can do is hope and pray that after we taper off the drugs causing the inducement, her body naturally responds. How fast or slow will depend on her biology. She’s being transferred to ICU as we speak.”“I want to see her.”“You can’t Jack. She’s covered in tubes and wires. You have to allow us

  • Love, Obsession, Torture   CHAPTER EIGHTY

    JACK’S POVI stared bleakly at the name flashing across my screen, phone dancing in my grip. I answered on the fifth ring, damn it I didn’t where to begin. My mind was fuzzy, where would I start from? Fuck!“Jack are you there? Jack?” she asked, worry creasing her tone“Lana… I…” My words faded into nothing, eyes clouding over again.“What’s going on Jack? I’ve been calling Robin’s phone, she’s not answering.” I didn’t respond, my heavy breathing pretty much the only sound pumping down the line. I was falling apart.“Jack, you’re making me worried!”“She um… Robin…” I trailed off again, unable to finish the bloody sentence. I huffed, lacing my hands through my hair, bracing my head up and looking at the goddamn ceiling like it held some fucking solution. Fuck! I saw in my mind’s eye Robin’s gorgeous eyes, a kind of beauty I had never seen before, staring and smiling at me.“What is wrong with Robin, Jack?”Lana’s shrill jolted my mind back, she was persistent and needed answers. My to

  • Love, Obsession, Torture   CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE

    JACK’S POV“Fuck!” I bellowed, pacing up and down, unable to relax. Robin’s was phone going straight to fucking voicemail again. Fuck it! Rushing out to my vast garage, I tore out, speeding to her apartment and dialling her once more, going out of my mind with worry. Was she already home? Fuck! I stepped on the gas, I had to explain things properly to her. I hadn’t seen Lois in what? More than five years, then one fucking evening she decided to drop a fucking bombshell? I sighed, weaving a hand through my mop. She had to be crazy if she thought she could cripple what I had with Robin. I dialled again, voicemail. Voicemail, fucking voicemail, her freaking voicemail was all I was getting!“Crap! Robin, baby, I know how this looks, okay but just listen to me for once. I have nothing to do with Lois. Answer your phone baby, I’m going mental here.” I put down the phone, slapped my hands across the wheel and huffed. “Come on, come on.” I was going as fast as I could, had to resolve this as

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