Se connecterChapter 288MatteoBut she just stared at us, her expression entirely pale. "What if the person that took her is her biological father, and he used supernatural powers to hide her?" She asked but before we could answer she raised her hands again."If that's true, then that means Elowen might not be fully human either?" The question hung heavily in the air, suffocatingly loud. Before Kian or I could answer, again, Caroline's eyes suddenly darted to the side. She froze, turning her head slowly to look at the man sitting right next to her.Damien hadn't said a single word through any of this. He was just holding her hand, his head bowed, his face full of a profound, agonizing sadness.Caroline felt the sudden shift in the air. She looked at him, her brow furrowing in sudden, terrifying confusion. "Damien?" He didn't look at her at first."Damien, look at me," she whispered, her voice trembling violently as she tugged on his hand. "Are you... You're... you're human right?... You don't..
Chapter 287MatteoI leaned back against the window frame, my arms crossed tightly over my chest as Kian paved the way for the truth. The air in my office felt thick, almost unbreathable. Every single person in this room was wound up, waiting for the inevitable snap.Caroline sat stiffly in the chair, her hand gripped tightly in Damien’s. She didn't blink. She didn't look away from Kian. She just gave a firm, desperate nod. "I promise. I’ll behave. Just tell me."Kian took a step forward, his shadow falling across the desk. "We aren't ordinary humans, Caroline."Caroline’s eyes opened wide, her breath hitching slightly in her throat as she looked from Kian, to me, and then to Alessandro leaning against the doorframe. "Do you mean... you have supernatural powers?" Kian and I slowly nodded."Are you like... witches? Or vampires?" she asked, her voice cracking under the weight of the question. But before either of us could form an answer, she frantically waved her hands in the air, shak
Chapter 286KianSeven hours.Seven hours, forty-two minutes, and eleven seconds. It has been the most agonizing, soul-shredding stretch of time in my entire life. Every single tick of the clock feels like a jagged blade dragging slowly across my chest. I am suffocating in a world that suddenly has no air, because the woman who gives me breath is gone.I close my eyes, but I can't escape it. My mind relentlessly loops back to the exact moment our world fractured.Matteo and I had been separated from her for only a few minutes. I was speaking with the prosecution team, but my true focus was anchored entirely to Elowen. To the steady, beautiful thrum of her heartbeat that usually echoes in the quiet spaces of my mind.Then, it happened.The rhythm shattered. Her heart didn't just speed up; it spiked into a frantic, terrifying, erratic pace. It was a rapid, desperate hammering that practically screamed danger. Matteo who was on a call and just entering the room felt it too. Our eyes
Chapter 285Elowen A sharp, deafening crack exploded through the enclosed bay. Anna screamed, falling heavily to the floor as blood instantly began to bloom through the fabric of her trousers, just above the knee."Ah, God!" she shrieked, clutching her lap, her body curling into a ball of agony.The man instantly pulled me backward, his arm locking tightly around my neck, shoving the hot barrel of the gun directly against my temple. My hands instinctively flew to my stomach, protecting my child."Stand back!" the man yelled, his voice cracking with hysteria. "Tell your men to back the fuck off, or the next one goes right into the old woman's head! Back up!"In the chaos, the positioning had shifted. I was standing in a strange, agonizing pocket of space. The kidnapper had backed up against the open rear door of the SUV, but his grip on me had slipped slightly as he tried to keep his eyes on the sea of weapons pointed at him. I was essentially floating between the line of security a
Chapter 284ElowenThe relief in the courtroom was a living thing, thick and suffocatingly sweet. For thirty-five years, these men had hidden behind their wealth, their pristine suits, and the suffocating silence they had bought with hush money. But Kian had dismantled them. Piece by piece, entry by entry, he had forced their own arrogance to convict them.As the judge announced a brief recess before the defense began its final arguments, the heavy tension that had anchored my shoulders for months finally snapped.Matteo helped me guide my heavy, pregnant body out of the row, his hand steady against the small of my back. Caroline was right beside us, her face flushed with a mixture of tears and triumph."We need to get you off your feet," he murmured, his eyes scanning my pale face with that familiar, protective intensity. "You've been sitting in that rigid chair for three hours."Before we could cross the threshold of the courtroom doors into the buzzing corridor, his phone vibrate
Chapter 283ElowenAs we were about to leave the court room that day, Anna walked up to me.I thought she wanted to say something about how she was saying the truth. But surprisingly she hugged me immediately we got close and started crying.I froze not knowing what to do with that. Didn't know why she was this emotional.My hands that limped by my side uselessly moved up round her back. I tapped on it slowly."Do not worry about the case, Kain will win it. I promise." She cried more not letting go.At first I told myself it was just a hug but then it stopped feeling that way and started feeling like something more."I failed you. "I heard her say between sobs. "You went through all that and I wasn't there for you. I was wallowing in self-pity when you were going through all this." Ohh that was what she meant."I'm fine now, you do not need to..." I tried to pull away but she held me tight."I'm so sorry. This selfish woman that thought about herself and didn't for once think about h
Chapter 66Matteo The boy started crying immediately, tears streaming down his red face while his feet kicked uselessly in the air, and his two friends scattered like roaches when the light comes on, running toward the crowd while shouting for help."I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" the boy sobbe
Chapter 73Elowen"Fuck, Elowen."Matteo’s voice was rough, almost broken, as my fingers curled around the hard length of him through his trousers. The sound he made—half groan, half curse—sent a jolt straight through me, pooling heat low in my belly. I should have stopped. I should have yanked m
Chapter 71ElowenSomething cool touched my forehead and I tried to open my eyes but they felt glued shut, my eyelids too heavy to lift and my head pounding with a rhythm that made even thinking painful.The cool sensation moved to my temples and I realized someone was dabbing at my hair with what
Chapter 75Elowen But he was also the only option I had, I had no one else.It was a terrible idea.It was probably going to backfire.It was likely going to make everything worse instead of better.But I was done playing by Adrian's rules, done accepting that I had no choices, done letting fear o







