บททั้งหมดของ In Love With My Stepson: บทที่ 61 - บทที่ 70

None of this makes sense.What the hell is going on?Hazel was just fine in the morning, so why? Why is this happening now?!Ryan can’t wrap his head around it. It still feels like a nightmare.Just this morning, before he went out, she smiled brightly at him. Just this morning, before he left, she smiled at him. He kissed her, and she kissed him back. He crouched down, kissed her bump, rubbed it, felt it.They were both okay in the morning… Then all of a sudden, he comes back, hears her cry, rushes to her room—only to find her trembling on the ground, unconscious, bleeding.The terror he felt then was unmatched. The terror he feels now is even worse.They’re all here—Ryan, Adora, Selene, and Lennox. The moment Lennox was informed his wife was rushed to the hospital and that her and the baby’s life were at stake, he left everything he was doing and drove at full speed to get here.Now they all sit, stand, pace restlessly in the hospital waiting room, drowning in the silence.Hazel has

Lennox lets out a harsh exhale as he reclines into his swivel chair, his gaze lifting to the cold, dark ceiling. There underground, in his second office, where most people never make it out alive— They either die at his or his mens kill them, or end up killing themselves.“Please… please, sir, I’m just a doctor. I did all the checkups, I swear I—”“Arsh!” Lennox grunts in annoyance and irritation. His fist lands on the desk with a force that echoes through the room and instantly moves, a loud punch echoes through the cold walls.“Who gave you permission to speak?!!” Rafa shouts.A sigh slips through Lennox’s lips as he finally turns his chair to face the scene in front of him, his gaze dropping to the three trembling figures before himAdora, his long-time housekeeper Mrs. Huxley, the new midwife, and Dr. Marchet, the family obstetrician. They’re kneeling before him, arms tied behind their backs, ankles bound together.All this time, all they’ve done is fail him.It’s time to get rid

Content Warning: Chapter contains physical violence.“DAD!!” Ryan yells, shock and fear coursing through his veins.He storms toward the monitor. “What the hell are you doing?” he yells, his eyes darting wildly across the split screen on the monitor.In one of them, Adora is there—her body hanging upside down in one of the locked rooms.“What should be done,” Lennox answers curtly, increasing the dread Ryan feels.His eyes shift to the next screen, and he sees the family doctor, Dr. Marchet, lying down on a table that he’s chained to. He seems fine at first, but when Ryan squints, looking further into the screen, he sees it—the doctor’s index and thumb fingers on both hands have been cut off.Looking at another screen, they don’t seem to be doing anything to Mrs. Huxely, yet she’s on the floor, screaming and shouting like invisible people are stabbing her repeatedly with a sharp knife.Ryan turns back toward Lennox, who is now standing up. “What the hell do you think you’re doing, you

~Ryan~“Arrgh!” I gasp as a splash of cold water snaps me awake. My chest heaves relentlessly, breath short and fast.“Nngh!” I groan, my eyes squeezing shut as my head lurching side to side. I can still feel the electricity pulsing through my veins.“Goddamn Rafa!” I yell, eyes snapping open as I jerk forward—only to be yanked back by a sudden force.“Hahaha,” my dad’s familiar laugh echoes around me, and I quickly look down to see the state I’m in.Restrained, body soaking wet, water dripping from my clothes—meaning they must have tried several times to wake me up.I wriggle my hands, which are tied to the arms of the chair, shake my legs tied to the legs of the chair, try to move my torso, which is duct taped around the chair forward, but I don’t budge. They have me bound to this chair tight! And I won’t be able to leave unless they let me leave.My father’s irritating laugh fills the air again, closer now. “Quit being so stubborn, Ryan. It’ll take you nowhere.”I sharply turn to th

My grip is tight on her shoulder, fingers pressing into her skin in a bruising hold. Her eyes widen, blue irises darting in fear and confusion.“Just one push, and you’d be dead.”“Ryan.”That voice.My entire body jerks. I release Selene immediately and turn.It’s Hazel.Of course it’s her.The only reason I let go so fast.Our eyes lock for a brief second, but she shifts her gaze between me and Selene, suspicion flickering behind the calm in her gaze.She wants to talk. I can read her well enough to know that.I glance at Selene, who’s still very much stunned. I never have spoken that way, I never even speak to her, so I get it.“Selene was just on her way…” I say, back from her, sliding my hands into my pockets like nothing happened.I glance at her again, raising an eyebrow. “Right, Selene?”“Uh… yeah,” she utters halfheartedly, abruptly turning away, then frantically rushing down the stairs, like a frightened rabbit.Good.I turn back to Hazel. “Hazel,” I call softly as I walk to