Semua Bab Owed to the Devil: Bab 31 - Bab 33

IslaNo one cared where I came from, and I liked it that way.Tariq’s cousin, Elsie, was kind but not nosy. She handed me a clean room, a secondhand phone, and a list of small diners hiring servers. That was it. No sympathy. No stares. Just silence.Which… in a strange way, felt like kindness.I got a job wiping tables at a 24-hour breakfast joint near the train tracks. I never told them my real name.No one asked.The mornings were cold. The nights were colder. But I kept breathing. One step at a time.And when it got too much, when I’d lie awake with a palm over my stomach, wondering what kind of world I was bringing life into—I’d whisper, “Just hold on one more day.”Sometimes that was enough.Other nights… not even close.*********Nina--- The witness“It was dark. Rainy,” Nina said, standing near the alley behind the café. “I was heading home. Saw a girl asleep near the dumpsters, wrapped in a hoodie.”Caleb showed her the photo again. “Was it her?”Nina looked closely. Then nodd

Delilah PovAt first, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.The heat, the noise, the blur of the street crowd—maybe it was just a hallucination. But then she turned slightly, and there was no mistaking her.Isla Vane.Looking like she’d stepped out of a war zone. Hair pulled into a tired knot, skin dull, shadows beneath her eyes—but that wasn’t what made my stomach drop.She was pregnant.Not just a little. Heavily. Her coat did a bad job at hiding it, and even worse when she clutched her belly briefly, the way mothers do when something kicks too hard.My heart froze. Wasn’t she supposed to be dead? Or disappeared?Then something clicked in my headI reached for my phone with fingers that felt a little too excited. I shouldn’t care. But this? This was too juicy to ignore. I scrolled past my friends, past Mira, past the other Voss society clingers then stopped.Zara.Mrs. Voss now, if we’re being formal.She’d want to know. No, she needed to know. Especially with how cold Grayso