Lahat ng Kabanata ng Jacob Hale: Enemy’s Secret Toy: Kabanata 141 - Kabanata 150

Nathan The burden of Jack’s death weighs on me like a freight I couldn’t shake off. The guilt was overwhelming, but honestly, it wasn’t just the guilt that was taking over… it was the anger. I could feel it brewing in my chest, my mind racing to justify what I did. Jack’s death wasn’t part of the plan. I never wanted him to die. But here we were, and it was my fault.I was all alone, hiding in the shadows that I’d created for myself. I’ve secluded myself in darkness, far from everything familiar. My body felt worn out, and my mind was shattered by the war I’d stirred up, yet this was the only place I felt I had any semblance of control. Still, there was a part of me that couldn’t stop thinking about Jacob. About how he walked away from me. About how he chose Daniel over me.I could still hear his voice, the sting of his rejection. He said it was over, but it didn’t feel over to me. Not by a long shot.Letting him go was never an option. Sure, I told myself I could do it. I tried

Daniel The realization hit me hard, and with it came the full force of what Jacob had been through. I knew the kidnapping had devastated him, but seeing the trauma reflected in his eyes drove the point home… how the fear still clung to him, how he’d been broken in ways I wasn't sure even I could mend.I had been there. Had fought to bring him back, but what did that matter if the scars remained? The guilt, the confusion, the dread of losing him forever… it was all still there, simmering just beneath the surface.Jacob wasn’t the same anymore. The man I once knew, the one with fire in his eyes who fought to keep me at a distance, was now just a hollow version of himself. The kidnapping had done more than just hurt him physically… it had shattered his spirit. He couldn’t see the way I looked at him, or hear the desperation in my voice when I assured him I would always be there for him, no matter what.I was not prepared for this kind of pain. For the way he isolated himself, the way

JacobThe truth hit me hard like a brick. I thought I had Nathan all figured out… who he was, what he wanted, what he was capable of…but this? This revelation completely impaired my perception.He was married? To. A wife. A woman.I struggled to wrap my head around it at first. The shock left me numb. It wasn’t just that Nathan had a wife, it was that he’d hidden it from me, the very person he claimed to love, the one he’d played with and lied to for years. The one he almost married.I had trusted him, despite everything that had happened. I had been blind, lost in my desire to believe he was something he wasn’t.How could he do this? How could he stand there, day after day, telling me we were destined to be together while lying to my face the entire time?The anger surged through me, hot and relentless. But beneath the fury, a chilling realization settled in.Nathan had never been the person I thought he was. He had used me, manipulated my emotions, and concealed the most importan

Jacob The room felt chilly, the air filled with hidden truths. I could still recall the sting of the ropes digging into my skin, my body bound to that chair. It wasn’t just my hands that were trapped, everything else was. My mind, my heart, every part of me was held captive by forces beyond my grasp.The darkness surrounding me wasn’t merely the absence of light. It represented the absence of hope, of trust. I had spent countless hours, days, maybe weeks just trying to make sense of it all. Without a clock or sunlight to mark time’s passage, I was left with only the suffocating silence.Still, even amidst that darkness, I couldn’t stop my thoughts. I kept circling back, trying to comprehend how I ended up there. It wasn’t solely the physical pain haunting me, it was the emotional turmoil. The betrayal. Richard’s… Nathan’s betrayal.I had believed in him, and let him into my life and my heart. He was my family… or at least, that’s what I thought. But the man I had loved had trans

Jacob It’d been weeks since I last saw Daniel.I’d run back to hide in the one place I knew he wouldn’t dare to come looking.The room in that big apartment was dim, illuminated only by the weak glow of a streetlight filtering in from outside. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around how I ended up back here… Nathan's place of all places. I thought I'd managed to leave that behind…the pain, the manipulation, that endless tug-of-war between love and hate.Maybe I’d come here to find closure. Sitting on the edge of the couch, I pulled the thin blanket tighter around me, feeling a tightness in my chest. The walls felt like they were closing in, as if the heavy weight of my past had seeped into every corner of this place, clinging to the air around me. But deep down, I knew this wasn’t where I was meant to be.For weeks, I had run from the truth, from Daniel. And now, here I sat, alone. Hiding. But a part of me always understood that no matter how far I ran, he would find me. He alw