LOGIN“Stupid fool!”The jailers cursed at me as they shoved me forward, their hands rough, impatient. My shoulder slammed against the cold metal bars as they pushed me into the cell and locked it without ceremony. Not once did they pause to read me my rights. Not once did they mention a lawyer. The right they proudly grant every criminal in the USA suddenly didn’t apply to me.“This is Marinda View, Mr.,” one of them said coldly, as if that explained everything. They had already said it earlier, when I demanded legal representation. It was their favorite line. Their excuse. Their shield.In Marinda View, once a criminal is arrested and all evidence points in one direction, they believe the criminal’s opinion no longer matters. Your voice becomes irrelevant. Your version of events is treated as noise. Guilt is assumed. Judgment is swift.Taking them to court would have been a waste of time. They wouldn’t allow it. And just like that, I became a laughing stock. From the moment they dragged
Sarah’s POVI waited at the hospital for three days straight. Three long, dragging days that blurred into each other until time itself felt meaningless. I didn’t go home to take my bath. I didn’t go to brush my teeth. I barely slept. I stayed there, rooted in one place, right at the reception, sitting on one of the cold chairs with Roland. At some point, the hospital stopped feeling like a building and started feeling like a prison I couldn’t walk out of.The doctors and nurses were trying their best. I knew that because I saw it in their faces whenever they walked past us. They were mostly in the surgical room, moving in and out with hurried steps, clipped conversations, and eyes that avoided mine. Every time the doors opened, my heart jumped, only to sink again when they closed without a word.I pressed my hands to my lips, biting back sobs that threatened to escape without warning. I had already informed my mother that I was at the hospital. She came at intervals with prayers whi
Sarah’s POV“Ma’am. He is demanding for you.”The voice struck the right side of my awareness like a sudden tap on glass. I turned slowly toward the direction it came from, and that was when I saw one of the nurses. A woman in a crisp white uniform leaned toward me, lowering her voice to a whisper, as though Abraham’s name alone was fragile enough to shatter the air if spoken too loudly.For a second, I just stared at her, my mind struggling to catch up with the meaning of her words.Roland rose immediately from the waiting area where we sat. The movement was instinctive, protective. The moment he heard that Abraham was awake after the surgery and asking to see me, I already knew what was going through his head. As Abraham’s personal security, Roland would never allow me to be alone with him. Not now. Not after everything that had happened.And frankly, there was no secret between Abraham and me that warranted privacy anyway. There was nothing left unsaid between us that could not exi
Dave’s POVI didn’t need to explain the escaping plan to Ferdinand. The way everything unfold was already clear to him the moment things started spiraling out of control. We had worked together for too long, survived too many close calls for him not to understand what this moment meant.He knew it.Anyone being exposed on national TV, anyone whose face was already circulating online with captions screaming wanted, didn’t have the luxury of normal exits anymore. When there was a high possibility that the police were already looking for you, the airport was the last place you should even think about.That much was common sense.If a person who was being hunted decided to try escaping through an airport, wouldn’t there be verification? Wouldn’t there be checks long before the plane ever left the ground? Before the airport employees even allowed him to board?And once the system flagged the name, a red label would quietly appear on the laptop screen.That was how it worked.The employees
Sarah’s POV“Doctor, Doctor, how is he?”My hands clung to the doctor’s arm like it was the only thing anchoring me to reality. My fingers trembled, nails pressing into the fabric of his coat as though letting go would mean losing Abraham entirely. Earlier, when the paramedics brought him in, everything happened too fast. One moment he was being wheeled through the hospital doors, blood staining the sheets beneath him, and the next, they were rushing him straight into the emergency room without slowing down.“We can’t afford to delay. His condition is critical.”The voice didn’t come from the doctor I was holding. It came from a woman in a white robe standing at the hallway, her tone firm and commanding. She pointed decisively toward the emergency room, directing the paramedics with the ease of someone who had done this countless times.She was a nurse. No one needed to ask questions to know that, not with the way she carried herself and the authority stitched into her movements.In
Abraham’s POV“Punch!”My fist crashed into his face with everything I had, the impact hard and solid, like stone meeting stone. I felt the shock travel through my arm, straight into my shoulder.“Ah!” he exclaimed, the sound sharp and raw with pain.I did not stop.I punched him again, another time, driven by something deeper than anger. Something darker. Something urgent.He lost balance and fell hard to the ground beneath us.“Abraham?!” Sarah exclaimed in shock.Her voice cut through the chaos, but only faintly. Clearly, she had no idea where I came from or how I even got there. But that did not matter. Not now. Not in this moment.All that mattered was that I had stopped him.I had saved her from being strangled by this criminal, this man who dared to claim he loved her while his hands were wrapped around her throat. Love did not look like that. Love did not suffocate. Love did not terrorize.I mounted him and continued punching, aiming for his head, my fist rising and falling wi







