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AshawritesThanks for reading!🌺 For everyone who's still confused about the last two chapters before, I hope this clears things up... I made corrections to the previous chapter... It was meant to be 9 years later, not 19. I hope you enjoyed the story! 🫠
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RolexI entered the car and fastened my seat belt when my phone began to ring. I wanted to ignore it at first, but the number flashing on the screen wasn’t saved in my contacts, it was an unknown one. Curiosity got the best of me. After securing the belt across my chest, I picked it up.“Hey, it’s me….Red.The voice on the other end made everything inside me freeze. The noise around me faded, the faint music from the radio, even the thrum of my own heartbeat. It was like the entire world stopped moving.“Rolex?” the voice called again, soft and hesitant, yet familiar enough to make my chest ache.My heart began to race, not the way it used to when I was still foolishly obsessed with her, not that old rush of excitement whenever I saw her name or heard her laugh but in a strange, uneven rhythm that I couldn’t quite explain. A shock, a ghost from the past.For years, I had tried to reach her after she left. I called everyone I could, but it was as if she’d vanished from the face of the
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“We don’t even know his parents! Why would you bring a stranger home?” the man yelled at his wife. His voice wasn’t loud enough to echo through the whole house, but the anger in his tone was clear.Rolex stood by the doorway, his small hands shaking slightly as he listened to every word. He had only come to tell her that Ruby had fallen asleep, but now, hearing them talk about him thinking he had fallen asleep, he froze. His heart ached with every word.“But he was alone in the rain,” the woman argued softly. “I couldn’t just leave him there to die. He was soaked to the bone, trembling… Ruby wouldn’t even leave without him. She begged me to bring him home.”Her husband sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose. “We’ll take him to the police tomorrow. He can’t stay here when we don’t even know why he was out there in the first place.”“Honey, he’s just a child,” she pleaded, her voice cracking. “What harm could he possibly do?”Rolex swallowed hard, guilt burning in his throat. He didn’t
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He sat on the cold, muddy floor, his small body shaking as he cried his heart out. His voice broke with each sob, but he didn’t care that people might be watching. He was only ten, and nothing in the world could be more terrifying than watching his own mother collide with another man to murder his dying father. He witnessed everything himself. The man who had been his only source of love and protection was gone. He had no one left. His mother had never liked him that much was no secret. She had always favored his twin brother. She wouldn’t even hesitate to say it to his face, how much she regretted ever giving birth to him. Her words cut deeper than any knife could, but he still hoped that someday she would look at him the way she looked at his brother. That she would smile at him once, or touch his hair gently, or tell him she was proud of him. But that day never came. And now the only person who had ever shown him affection was gone, the man who had once promised to pr
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Mia“Do you?” I asked again in a lower voice, my heart breaking against his silence. He didn’t answer. He just stared at me, his expression unreadable. The stillness between us hurt more than any words he could have said. He didn’t love me, he never did. The realization burned inside me. I turned to leave, my chest tightening with each step, but before I could take another, he pulled me back…hard. My body collided with his chest, and the air left my lungs.“I don’t know about love,” he said, his voice calm and steady. “My whole life, I’ve never truly felt real love. I can’t love you, Mia… but my hunger for you knows no bounds.”He said it like the words alone weren’t enough to hold what he felt, like there was something stronger. The look in his eyes…God, the way they softened when they met mine, it was a different Rolex standing before me. Not the cold, devilish man I feared, but someone stripped bare of his armor.And somehow, I couldn’t even blame him for saying he couldn’t love
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Mia I stood up and turned to leave when I remembered the real reason I’d come here in the first place, she’d mentioned my mother. How did she know her? And how did she know that name would be enough to bring me running? “How did you know about my mother?” I asked, pausing mid-step before turning back to face her. She didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she took her time, sipping the last of the red liquid from her wineglass. Tthe sound of the club’s muffled music echoing faintly from the other room. Finally, she set the glass down with a faint clink and said, “Were you deaf when I told you I worked with your father? How wouldn’t I know about you or your mother?” I froze, my breath catching in my throat. My mind went blank for a second, but I masked my shock well enough that she couldn’t see it. “You worked with him?” I asked quietly, narrowing my eyes. “You know how dangerous he is, and you knew how much Rolex wanted to kill him, yet you colluded with him?” Hazel chuckled, shak
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Mia“Is everything okay?” Sister Rafaella asked once she returned and noticed my face. I must have looked disturbed because her brows pulled together in concern. I was trying not to panic, but everything around me was beginning to feel unreal…like I was trapped inside a movie where I didn’t know the ending.“Yeah… I’m fine,” I lied, forcing a smile that didn’t last long. She studied me for a second longer before nodding and walking away. I sighed in relief, lowering my gaze to my phone when it chimed with a new message.It was from an unknown number.Meet me here if you really want the truth about Rolex.I scoffed out loud. The text made absolutely no sense. What “truth” could there possibly be left to uncover about Rolex? I already knew what kind of man he was….dangerous, unpredictable, and capable of anything. I’d seen every side of him there was to see, and I’d suffered enough to prove it.I locked my phone immediately, shaking my head. Whoever it was must think I was stupid enou
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