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Chapter 86 - Blake’s POV

Anney GW
last update Tanggal publikasi: 11.03.2026 10:45:49

I went to the bedroom I’d shared with Jessica, the center of our married life. The place where we’d talked about our hopes and dreams, planned our vacations to places where the sun always shone. Where Ethan used to sleep, safely between us.

Would my son ever feel safe again?

Yes. He would. When the man who’d ordered his mother’s death was gone. When the organization that had carried it out was dismantled and destroyed.

I pulled open the closet door and flinched as the smell of Jessica’s perfu
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