All Chapters of Howl for Justice : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

He has stayed, and it is impossible. He has stayed, and I don’t know what to do, don’t know how to be, don’t know how to hold this. My mind races with the awareness of his presence, with the awareness of the threat, with the awareness of the risk. It races with the awareness of him, of him, of hi

The final confirmation comes in the shape of a hidden file, a false-bottomed drawer, a false life. Derek’s private study is full of shadows, of secrets, of quiet deceit. The storm drums against the windows like a warning, like an omen, like the edges of what I know to be true. I begin my search with

I lock the study door behind me, and the soft click is a soft reminder of what is closed off, what is secure, what is certain. It echoes through the house, echoes through me, echoes in the parts of me that hurt and the parts of me that know. My footsteps are deliberate against the wooden floor, deli

I am the only shadow in the office, the only soul haunting the dim spaces. The rain is a secret I cannot hold; it taps out my betrayals in staccato against the glass. My breath comes as jagged as the papers on my desk. My pulse as uneven. I know he will find me. I know he will be here. And then he i

The words are impossible to hold, impossible to ignore. They open the air, open my thoughts, open the rawness of this. The world shifts, shifts with the truth, shifts with the unbearable reminder. I watch him, and I don’t know how to be this woman, how to be this woman with Lucas in my office, with