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Chapter 113

Author: Omokhafue
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I couldn't believe what I could clearly see. It had to be a dream. I had to be fucking dreaming. The burn on my bounded wrists told me otherwise. My head fell forward, taking in a staggered breath. A crazed laugher left my lips. I jerked back, and laughed. I laughed till the corners of my eyes started watering. I laughed till I couldn't feel the burn on my wrists anymore. I laughed till I drowned the sound of Elias ragged breathing beside me.

"I want to know what's so funny, niece?" The man dressed in a black suit, standing in front of us adjusted the collar of his shirt.

My uncle was alive.

Ronald Laurent was alive and standing in front of me.

I was on my knees, the cold tile biting into my skin through the fabric of my pants. My wrists were bound behind my back, the zip ties cutting into my flesh so tight I could feel my fingers starting to go numb. My hair hung in fiery waves around my face, stuck to my cheeks and forehead by sweat and dirt and God knew what else. Every breath I
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  • The Darkest Obsession    Chapter 116

    Ronald's head cocked to the side, his eyes distant as if trying to remember something before smoothening out. He clasped his hands in front of him and looked back at me. "We created the black rose." His voice drifted throughout the space of the room. My vision was blurring as I struggled to make out the figures in it. Seeing no other besides Ronald and the fucker, I glared at Ronald through the thick strands of lashes."Created?" My voice came out croaked, the air I took in felt like a burn in my chest."La Rosa Nera was what Jacob named it, being Italian and all," he skipped a step. For some reasons he couldn't stay still. "Valentine and Isabel preferred it be called the normal way in English, The Black Rose."My face drained of all colours as I tried to comprehend what Ronald had just said and failed. My parent were part of the black rose?Pressing my lips into a thin line, I kept silent for him to continue.Ronald began talking, his voice taking on a wistful quality that made my s

  • The Darkest Obsession    Chapter 115

    My brain scrambled, thoughts fragmenting and scattering like broken glass as I tried to find a way out of this. Any way out. Face pinched in pain, the throbbing in my cheek where Ronald had struck me radiating through my skull in waves that made my vision swim.Cassien was still holding his shoulder, blood seeping steadily between his fingers and dripping onto the floor beneath him. His face was taut, pulled tight with pain and fury as he stared at my uncle with murder in his eyes. At my side, Elias was almost unconscious, his body slumped forward in a way that made my stomach twist with fear. I could see the shallow lift and dip of his chest through my now blurry vision, each breath so slight I had to focus to make sure he was still breathing at all.My ears still worked though, as I heard my uncle continue talking, his voice drifting through the space like poison. And then my mind went to Duke, to the way he'd disappeared so suddenly from the base. Like something had snapped into pl

  • The Darkest Obsession    Chapter 114

    Shock wrote itself across Cassien's face, his features frozen in disbelief as he stared at the man in front of him. Then dread crept in, slow and suffocating, like he wasn't sure who he was seeing or if what he was seeing was even real. His gaze found me on the ground and I watched the rage settle into his features, watched the way his jaw tightened until the muscle jumped beneath his skin. His hand moved to his back, fast and fluid, and in one motion he had a gun pointed directly at Ronald's head."Let her go." The words came out like fire being spit from his mouth.Ronald's smirk grew slowly, stretching across his face until it became something monstrous. And then he laughed, the sound echoing through the space and bouncing off the walls around us. When he was done, when his laughter finally died into something quiet and dangerous, he asked, "Where are your manners, Cassien?"Suddenly there was cold metal pressed against my temple, the barrel of a gun grazing my skin. I hadn't even

  • The Darkest Obsession    Chapter 113

    I couldn't believe what I could clearly see. It had to be a dream. I had to be fucking dreaming. The burn on my bounded wrists told me otherwise. My head fell forward, taking in a staggered breath. A crazed laugher left my lips. I jerked back, and laughed. I laughed till the corners of my eyes started watering. I laughed till I couldn't feel the burn on my wrists anymore. I laughed till I drowned the sound of Elias ragged breathing beside me. "I want to know what's so funny, niece?" The man dressed in a black suit, standing in front of us adjusted the collar of his shirt. My uncle was alive. Ronald Laurent was alive and standing in front of me.I was on my knees, the cold tile biting into my skin through the fabric of my pants. My wrists were bound behind my back, the zip ties cutting into my flesh so tight I could feel my fingers starting to go numb. My hair hung in fiery waves around my face, stuck to my cheeks and forehead by sweat and dirt and God knew what else. Every breath I

  • The Darkest Obsession    Chapter 112: The Maestro

    I was panting, breath coming in harsh bursts that burned my throat. I rubbed my arm across my face to clean the blood that had splashed across my skin, the warm wetness smearing before it dried sticky against my cheek. The blood wasn't mine. I walked further down the hallway, boots heavy against the tile, not bothering to give a second glimpse to the bodies I'd left behind. They didn't matter anymore. They'd made their choice when they decided to betray the Black Rose, when they'd chosen to turn their weapons on their own. She'll be okay, I told myself.I would make sure she got out of here, alive and whole. Jude deserved the world, deserved to be happy in ways I could never give her. I was filled with darkness, steeped in it so deep I didn't know where it ended and I began. I was dangerous, a weapon that had been sharpened and honed until killing was as natural as breathing. And I didn't know what I wanted for myself anymore.A man lunged at me from a doorway, his fist swinging wild

  • The Darkest Obsession    Chapter 111

    A clock started ticking in my head the moment the door closed behind Cassien. Tic. Toc. Each second felt like a hammer striking against my skull, loud and insistent and impossible to ignore. I ground my teeth together, the pressure almost painful as I forced myself to pull together. I reminded myself of what to do in situations like this, what I'd been trained for at the academy when everything went to hell. Don't give way to panic. It was the fastest way to get killed. Panic made you sloppy, made you miss things, made you dead. So I braced myself, pulling air deep into my lungs and holding it there until my hands stopped shaking. I turned the gun in my hand, checking the weight of it, the familiar grip grounding me as I faced Elias.Elias had no crass jokes up his sleeves, no teasing remarks or witty comments to lighten the mood. The constant tick on his jaw was the only thing giving him away that this situation was messing with him. His eyes were dark, harder than I'd ever seen th

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