LOGINEVANGELINE
I’d given up all hope of escaping. My limbs wouldn’t work and neither would my vocal chords.
I’d gone through the pain already in my mind. I’d pictured how it would end: my reputation ruined, my life stopped. I would never be able to show my face again in public.
I braced myself for the pain when I felt it; the shift in the air. The man on top of me would have felt it too if he wasn’t so focused on putting his disgust
~EVA~Five years.I keep thinking about that number because it genuinely does not feel like five years, it feels like we blinked and suddenly we have a five year old daughter who argues with her father about everything and a two year old son who has already figured out that smiling at people gets him whatever he wants, and somehow this became my life, and I am still getting used to how good it feels.
~NICHOLAS~I have been cool under pressure my entire life.Board meetings where millions were on the line, pack challenges where the outcome changed everything, conversations that could have gone sideways in a hundred different directions, I have sat through all of it without my hands shaking once, and I was genuinely proud of that track record.
~EVA~Sarah took my hand and walked me up to the platform, and I want to be very clear that my legs were doing the absolute bare minimum to keep me upright because everything from the last twenty minutes had my entire nervous system in shambles.The emcee stepped aside when Sarah reached the microphone, and the room, which had been buzzing with chaos from everything that had just gone down, went gradually quieter as people clocked that s
~EVA~One second Margaret was mid-air coming straight for me, half shifted, fur rippling up her arms and her face being absolutely horrifying, and the next second Nicholas was just there, between us, and his arm went forward, and Margaret dropped.My brain genuinely did not process it fast enough and I just stood there like a complete idiot with my mouth open while the entire banquet hall went so quiet I could hear the chandelier humming above us.
~MARGARET~Sarah suddenly stepped forward, and my chest tightened immediately because she had that dangerous look on her face again.“Enough,” she commanded, and the entire ballroom went quiet again. “Margaret has lied long enough.”I laughed instantly because what else was I supposed to do?
~MARGARET~My jaw hurt from smiling, one that made me want to rip these fake lashes off, throw my bouquet at someone’s head, and walk straight out of the ballroom barefoot.The guests were still whispering about the fight.Of course they were.Half the
EVANGELINEI woke up with a pounding ache in my head.Memories of what happened flashed through my mind and shame mixed with embarrassment filled me. I was almost raped. I could still feel his disgusting body pressed up against mine and the smell of his breath would pl
EVANGELINEI wasn’t sure exactly what was slipped into my drink, but it was clearly an aphrodisiac. Nothing else would explain the feelings within my body.I’d never taken one before, but I knew that it was only a matter of time before I truly lost control
NICHOLASIt was almost pathetic how the first thing I remembered when I woke up was that today was the official start of the drug trail and therefore it meant that it was Evangeline’s first day.She could barely stand me, and she was in love with her asshole of a husband, but I couldn’t stop thinki
MARGARETThe nurses fawned as I showed them the bag of imported chocolates and pictures of jewelry.“This is beautiful,” one of them whispered, staring at a picture of a necklace with a rose quartz gemstone in the middle. “It must have cost a fortune.”“It did,” I said casually. “My boyfriend is ve







