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ELEANOR SINCLAIR

The sound was a low metal howl that felt like a roar cutting through the cloud of gunpowder and blood that had enveloped the whole fishery.

All eyes turned to it, even Vincent's, his face a mask of rage and something else that I thought was unreadable. The turn cloaks, their own guns still trained on Vincent's subdued men, tensed, their eyes flicking to the door. Marcus's arm around mine closed even stronger and he pulled me away, his breath harsh as we moved silently and took cover behind a dented crate, waiting to see what hell was going to come out of that door.

Alas, it was Damian Blackwood who strode in, the gun he held glinting in the sporadic fluorescent light.

He walked with slight, curt steps and then stopped, his eyes running around and taking everything in. Indeed, his entrance was like a shockwave, paralyzing chaos in its wake. Once again, I could not help noticing how he was older than I remembered, his sharply cut features now relaxed now with age and
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  • Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance   VICTOR TURNED VICTIM

    VICTOR MOREAU This was my chance, however. The fleeting loss of his focus, the distraction-it was a vanishing moment of opportunity, but an opportunity nonetheless. Even while they were restraining me, it did not drain me as much as did the weight of what had happened, building a desperation that was going to consume me. My body ached, my head throbbed, and the knowledge that I'd been outsmarted by people I'd assumed were powerless were bitter pills to swallow. But seeing Helen-Nora, Eleanor, and Marcus drive off into the night had kindled a spark of triumph at Damian's defeat. It was a dirty, spontaneous victory, one that was going to buy me some much needed time, time that showed however brief. They dragged me deeper into the labyrinth of the fishery, along slicker, more vacated corridors. The stench of fish guts and cold, stagnant water was overwhelming. The gun shoved into my back to prevent me from running felt like hot scald, burning into my skin. My mind, though dazed an

  • Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance   THE FOOL

    VINCENT MOREAU My smile was born of a reflex. It was the smirk of a man who had gambled on his chances all his life, and who would still gamble, a man who had just realised that he still held a hidden card even when he thought all chances were lost. Helen-Nora, the simpering, weeping mother of my child whom I had found so utterly useless, had actually done something right for once. She was stupid enough to not acknowledge the man who had saved her. Now, her frantic sobs and desperate pleas now looked as though they were all a smokescreen. It was as though she had created the distraction, and Eleanor, Damian's wife, had capitalized on it, and Marcus, the new hero with a death wish, had been their silent witness. Heck, he could even be Eleanor's new lover, and Damian would now feel used by her. He was still frozen, his eyes blank, so that the whole thing crumbled around him like a castle made of sand before a heavy tide. His eyes, which had been so sharp just seconds before, now s

  • Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance   THEIR BETRAYAL

    VINCENT MOREAU In the face of all the chaos, who it was did not matter as much, anymore. There was too much of everything to be bothered about a door being drawn open-from the air I breathed in being so thick with the saltish, metallic smell of blood that I could almost taste it on my tongue to and the foul smell of fish-it had always been there, but now it stunk even more. My boots remained fixed on the wet concrete floor that was now covered with what was left of the fight that had just marked my loss. There were bodies strewn all over the ground, both of them faithful men of mine and traitors, but so many of my men that it did not even feel as though the enemy had suffered any losses. Their eyes stared at nothing at all, carrying that look that proves that the life in the body has long gone. And there I stood in the center of it all, chest heaving, untouched by a single bullet. Eleanor and Marcus were nowhere in sight, dead or alive, and it riled me to think that they had esc

  • Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance   THE TWIST

    VINCENT MOREAU "Welcome to my world, Eleanor Blackwood," I uttered, heavy with sarcasm. "A world in which loyalty is something that one can ill afford, and every debt is paid in full.""What do you want?" Eleanor rasped out, her throat parched and her voice croaky and thick with rage and the tears she was doing everything to hold back. I moved around them carefully, my gaze darting between all three captives of mine."What I need," I said to her, "is for you to learn your rightful place and stick to it. To learn that nobody-not you, anyone-interferes in my business without regret." I took a step closer to her, my shadow falling across her like a heavy cloud. "You're going to be an example, Eleanor, a furious, wounded threat to anyone who thinks they can walk over me.""You'll never get away with this, Moreau! The police will arrest you!"I turned to look at the speaker and it was Marcus. His voice had returned, and it was trembling with stubbornness. How amusing?I smiled at his stup

  • Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance   EVIL ME

    VINCENT MOREAU I stood in the centre of the fishery.The concrete floor was so cold that I could sense it through my shoes, and the lights cast jagged shadows on the walls. My gaze swept over the view before me, lingering for an instant on Marcus before drifting on to Eleanor.Just the way I wanted to see her.Her eyes flared with defiance, but I could see the cracks in them that broke her character—the fear, the rage, and most of all, the confusion."Tell me about your sister, then?" I breathed, making sure my voice was low enough that it felt like I was sharing a secret with her, and still yet loud enough to be heard in the farthest reaches of this enormous room. I gestured to Helen-Nora with a hand, a mindless thing I liked, like skipping a stone across water. "You seem to know everything, Eleanor." You are so clever. You don't know, however, that there are loyalties that cut deeper than loyalty or your high ideals about money."Helen-Nora's crying had briefly ceased before this,

  • Scarred Roses, Burning Vengeance   SISTER AGAINST SISTER

    VINCENT MOREAU A cold shiver went through the air that was not the night."Bravo, Eleanor," I snarled into the earpiece, my voice ringing seemingly in her ear. "A performance of greatness. Now the curtain falls."Abruptly, the dim lights of the fishery flickered, then flamed with a blaze of light, lighting the big room with a cruel, pitiless light. I pictured Eleanor squinting, putting up her hand to shield her eyes, blinded for a moment. Before she could recover sight, her heart would shatter.Figures emerged from every shadow, every crevice. Not a few men, but dozens, all of them in black tactical gear and balaclavas, with big guns. They advanced in hushed, choreographed movements, flowing out into the big room, closing in on their hideout.I heard Eleanor's curse, "Marcus, run!" and then her desperate shove. But it was all already too late. In an instant, before they could scramble out from cover, two of my men were on them, rushing with impossible speed. Her reality, I knew, was

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