LOGIN“So… what were you saying?” John asked, still distracted by Ezra’s words echoing in his head.“The face is clear now!” Paulo blurted, excitement snapping through his voice as he jabbed a finger at the screen.John spun toward the monitor. He stepped closer, then even closer, squinting as the blurred pixels sharpened into a face he prayed he was not recognizing.“Andrew?” The name slipped out of him like a punch to the gut.His heartbeat slammed against his ribcage. Paulo glanced at him, confused by John’s reaction. “Wait, you know him?”“Of course,” John muttered, his voice tight, jaw clenching. “He’s my former beta.”The video finished rendering, leaving no room for doubt. The man who entered Mimi’s child’s room, the man they thought was Diane’s hired shadow was Andrew. Not Diane. Andrew.The realization ripped through John so fast he couldn’t stay still. He pushed himself up from the chair in one sudden motion, breath sharp, shock twisting through him. He didn’t even look back at Pa
“How did you do that?” John asked, leaning over Paulo’s shoulder as a line of green code flickered across the screen. Paulo only flashed a small, smug smile. “I don’t think you should know,” he murmured, tapping a final key as the monitor flashed SUCCESS.John’s stomach tightened. He hadn’t imagined Benjamin would push this far breaking into Evelyn’s factory network? That wasn’t bold, it was reckless. The kind of reckless that could blow everything apart. He dragged a hand through his hair and sank down beside Paulo, eyes glued to the screen as Paulo jumped to another window and began working on something else as if nothing was wrong.“You seriously think this won’t come back to haunt us?” John muttered, watching Paulo’s fingers dance across the keyboard.Paulo shrugged without looking up. “Depends,” he said under his breath, shoulders rising and falling in a lazy rhythm, “on how fast we cover our tracks.”John exhaled slowly, tension settling into his chest. He still hadn’t told Evel
DIANE Aria drags her gaze over me from head to toe, her brows slowly lifting like she’s trying to figure out if I’m joking or if I really did all that. Honestly, if I were her, I wouldn’t believe me either.“But you went too far,” she mutters, setting her wineglass on the table with a soft clink.“No way you just said that,” I snap, heat rising in my chest as I throw my hands up. “Can’t you see I’ve been stripped of my Luna title? I was humiliated so badly the same people I used to brag to mocked me right in my face, and I wasn’t about to look like a loser in front of Evelyn.”My voice breaks a little as the frustration spills out. Aria exhales, leans back, and after a beat gives me a slow, reluctant thumbs-up. “Valid reason, I won’t lie,” Aria says, lifting her hands in a small surrender. “But next time, please don’t involve little kids. They’re innocent, and it might come back to affect you later.”I let out a short laugh, the sound slipping out before I can stop it. She talks lik
EVEYLNWe left the hospital in silence and took the little body to the mortuary, then to the burial ground. Mimi couldn’t stop crying, her face buried in Solomon’s chest while his arms held her tight. He kept rubbing her back, voice low, trying to comfort her, but I could see the strain in his eyes too, he was fighting his own tears, fighting the pain of never hearing his child laugh or call him daddy even once. The sight twisted something in my chest, and all I could think about was Diane and her clan, how even an easy death would be too merciful for people like them, how the only punishment fitting for her was the kind that made her beg for an end.When the coffin was lowered, I stepped forward and placed my flowers on the small grave. John did the same beside me, and as I wiped my tears with the back of my hand, the whole world felt too quiet, too heavy for words.After we reached the mansion, I sat with Mimi for a while. She kept rubbing her palms together, voice shaking as she to
EVELYN.We reached the dungeon and the heavy gate groaned open. A cold stench of rot hit us before we even stepped inside. Dead bodies sprawled across the floor in twisted heaps, their wounds clean as if a blade had sliced through them. But no guard here carried a sword, only guns. So how in the hell were they cut down like this?John’s jaw tightened, his eyes burning with rage as he scanned the carnage. Flies buzzed around the half-decayed corpses. The warriors we’d summoned moved in with shovels and grim faces to haul the bodies away. Some were already soft and dark from a week of lying here. The silence hung heavy except for the scrape of boots and the low hiss of disgust from the men. “The only person who could do this is Diane,” I said quietly. “She’s the only one who knows this place as well as we do.”John didn’t answer. His face stayed hard, jaw locked, eyes fixed on the blood-stained floor.I reached out and rested a hand on his shoulder. He flinched at the touch, then slowl
EVEYLNAnd then I slowly began noticing that the car seat was going down and then it was flat as I was now lying down as he was on top of me, he took my hands to his chest as we began to remove his button down and then he threw his shirt on the back seat with his singlet, he began to remove my gown that I was putting on, as the kiss was becoming ab aggressive one. He lay in between my legs as he releases his lips from mine and then I began to breathe heavily."John...wait..." I begged but he didn't listened to me after I was already naked, he pressed his fingers on my boobs really hard as I gasped and then for me not to make sounds he shoved his lips on mine, shutting me up and I won't lie that I don't fucking love it. I love how harsh he always was on me anytime we are having sex. And then he spread my legs really wide, my left leg was hanging on the car driver seat head, and that's how wide my legs were opened. He then shoved his two finger inside my pussy as I was about to screa