เข้าสู่ระบบTyler's POVThe gunshot was the loudest thing I had ever heard in my life.It wasn’t like the movies. It didn’t echo dramatically or fade into some cinematic silence. It was just sudden and enormous and wrong in a way that made my entire body seize up before my brain could catch up with what had happened. The sound hit the walls and came back at me from every direction at once, and for a few seconds I couldn’t move or breathe or think anything coherent at all.Then Cooper started barking.Loud and frantic and without any of the hesitation he had shown a moment before. His voice filled the hallway and broke through whatever had frozen me in place, and suddenly I was moving.My eyes found Quin first.I crossed the hallway in three steps and grabbed him. Both hands on his face, his arms, his chest, looking and searching. My hands were shaking so badly I could barely feel what I was touching.“Are you hurt?” My voice came out unrecognizable. “Quin. Are you hurt?”He opened his mouth. Then
Quin's POV“Aiden.”His name tasted bitter in my mouth.The smile on his face widened just a little, like hearing it pleased him. For a long moment nobody moved. Even Cooper had gone unnaturally still. The puppy stood a few feet behind me, pressed tight against Tyler’s leg, a low growl vibrating from deep in his chest.Aiden glanced down at him. “ I see you don’t like me too.”“He has good instincts.”His smile disappeared.I wasn’t trying to be brave. I wasn’t trying to provoke him. I was buying time. Because the second I saw the gun, every priority in my head rearranged itself into one single objective.Keep Tyler alive. Nothing else mattered. Just Tyler.Aiden’s attention shifted past me. Toward him. Toward the man standing behind me. My chest tightened immediately.“Hello, Tyler.”Tyler ignored and didn’t answer.Aiden sighed. “Still rude as ever.”“Get out.” My voice came out colder than I expected.His eyes returned to mine. “No.” The answer was immediate and certain. Like he’d
Quin's POV Lucas was dead. I sat with that information for a long time after the call ended. Longer than I expected to. The room was quiet except for the sound of Cooper constantly shifting in Tyler's lap. Tyler hadn't said anything either. We just sat there, holding onto each other's hands. Suicide, Jake had said. I turned the word over in my head. Suicide. The end Lucas had chosen for himself in a small cell somewhere while the rest of the world continued operating without any awareness of him. It felt anticlimactic in a way that was difficult to articulate. Not disappointing exactly. Just small. After everything he had done, the ending had been quiet and private and entirely his own. I had wanted him to suffer. I could admit that. I had wanted him to face something that matched the scale of what he had done. A trial. Consequences that were public and documented and proportionate. Something that acknowledged the specific damage he had caused rather than simply removing him fro
Tyler's POVQuin kept on laughing, like I had just cracked the best joke of the century.He doubled over laughing. The kind of laugh that made his shoulders shake and his eyes water. Meanwhile, I sat beside him on the couch looking completely serious.“Stop laughing.”That only made it worse.“Oh my God,” he managed between breaths. “You’re serious.”“I am dead serious.”That earned me another round. Cooper chose that exact moment to climb into Quin’s lap and lick his chin. Tiny traitor."Cooper thinks I'm right too."Quin finally managed to compose himself. He wiped beneath one eye and looked at me. “Tyler. losing Cooper for a few minutes doesn’t mean you'll be a terrible parent.”“You don't know that.”Quin leaned back against the couch. Cooper immediately stretched across both our laps like he paid rent. The little freeloader.“Tyler, parents lose sight of their children sometimes. They're not robots.”“That’s not reassuring at all.”“It wasn’t supposed to be.” I groaned. Quin reac
Tyler's POV Cooper was gone. For a second, I couldn’t breathe. The leash dangled uselessly from my hand as I spun around, scanning every inch of the park I couldn't find him. No golden fur, no wagging tail and no puppy. My heart started hammering so hard it felt painful. “Cooper!” Several people glanced toward me. I ignored them. My eyes darted everywhere, Every possible direction a three-month-old golden retriever could have wandered off to. Nothing. “Oh God.” My stomach dropped. How long had I been texting Cassie? Two minutes? Three? Five? How long had I not been paying attention? Panic surged through me. My phone buzzed again. I checked it ,panicking thinking it was Quin. ~Cassie: Tyler? ~Cassie:Why did you stop replying? ~Cassie: Tyler? I shoved the phone into my pocket. Not now. Cooper was missing, Quin’s puppy was missing. Our puppy was missing. My legs moved before my brain could catch up. I hurried down the pathway. “Cooper! Baby where are you?” A woman pushing a s
Tyler's POVI spent the first twenty-four hours after Quin brought the puppy home pretending I wasn’t completely obsessed with him.It was a losing battle. I couldn't hide my excitement.The golden retriever puppy—which Quin had somehow managed to smuggle into our lives without warning—had immediately taken over the entire house. And my heart. Mostly my heart.“Dont make him disappear with your eyes.”I looked up from where I sat on the living room floor. Quin stood near the kitchen entrance holding a cup of coffee, one eyebrow raised. I looked back at the puppy. The puppy was staring back at me with those big, ridiculous eyes.“That won't happen.”“Thw way You’re smiling and looking at it one would think otherwise. And you're smiling way too much.”“So?”“You only smile like that when you’re looking at me.”I immediately looked away. The puppy chose that exact moment to roll onto his back and expose his soft little stomach. My soul left my body. I couldn't help but rub it's stomach.
Tyler's POV I prefer dream Quin to real Quin. Real Quin hated me and was most definitely straight. He kept fucking and hitting my prostrate, earning more screams from me. At some point he pulled the pillow from under me , flipped me over and held my ass to the air. I was soo close to the edge. I
Tyler's POV Quin and I didn't really play any drinking games. It was probably just his way of making me drink with him. I couldn't remember how we got to his room. Fuck. I drank too much. My eyes felt heavy, I could barely stand. I saw a figure moving towards me through my blurry vision. I rubb
Tyler's pov "You ungrateful piece of shit,” my mom yelled through the phone. “After everything I’ve done for you, Tyler. I even decided to keep you instead of flushing you out when I had the opportunity to.” It was nothing new, but the story was always new. “I told you I don’t have that kind
Tyler's POV It couldn't be. How was Quinn seated behind the huge desk of the office of the CEO.Was I missing something ?" Good morning sir" my voice came out clearly hiding any form of suspicion. Thank goodness I was wearing glasses and I dyed my hair black last night . Although I did it because







