Semua Bab Billionaire Alpha's Ex-wife and Her Hidden Cubs : Bab 151 - Bab 160

Rosa woke up first, blinking awake to find Pierce already watching her, his dark eyes warm and attentive."How long have you been awake?" she murmured, stretching."Not long. I was just... making sure you were real. That last night wasn't a dream."She reached up and touched his face, her fingers tracing the strong line of his jaw. "I'm real. We're real. And we're going to be okay.""Mommy! Daddy!" Elena's voice echoed from the corridor. "Can we go to the park today? Please, please, please?"Marcus appeared in the doorway behind his sister, already dressed in his favorite superhero shirt. "Dad said maybe we could if you were feeling better, Mom."Rosa sat up, pulling the covers around her. Despite everything, the terror, the possession, the violence, life was demanding to continue. Her children needed normalcy, needed to feel like the world was safe again."The park sounds perfect," she said, smiling at their excited faces.Two hours later, they were at Riverside Park, Rosa sat on the

Grief did terrible things to the mind, made you hear things, see things, believe impossible things because the truth was too horrible to bear. "Rosa!" Pierce called, following her voice. He found her in the bathroom, on her knees in front of the bathtub, her hands gripping the edge so hard he thought it might crack. She was staring at nothing, her chest heaving with silent sobs. "She's not here," Rosa whispered. "I heard her. I swear I heard her calling for me. But she's not here. She's not anywhere. Our baby is gone and I can't….I…. The words dissolved into a loud cry of anguish that Pierce felt in his bones. He set Marcus down gently in the hallway. "Stay with Abel, buddy. I need to help Mommy." Marcus nodded mutely, his face pale and filled with tears. Abel took his hand, leading him away as Pierce knelt beside Rosa on the cold bathroom floor. "I heard her, Pierce," Rosa sobbed into his chest as he wrapped his arms around her, comforting her. "I heard our baby girl calling

Pierce stood in the center of the living room, feeling helpless and useless and so fucking angry he wanted to put his fist through a wall. Four days. Four days his daughter had been gone, and they were no closer to finding her than they'd been that first horrific night."Pierce," Abel said. "I know this isn't what you want to hear, but the police are doing everything they can. We've got alerts out across three states” "And how many children go missing every year, Abel? How many are never found?" Pierce's voice was quiet, cracking without hope."Because I've done the research. I know the statistics. And they're not encouraging.""Don't think like that…""How else am I supposed to think?" Pierce shouted hitting his table "My daughter is out there with a demon who possessed my wife and tried to make her kill me! You think he took Elena for a goddamn tea party or some uncle and niece fun?"Marcus stirred in his arms and Pierce immediately regretted his outburst. He ran his hands throu

Pierce undressed in silence and slipped into bed, careful not to touch her. They lay there in the dark, inches apart both pretending to sleep while their daughter's absence ate them up. Elena pov Elena's eyes opened slowly, her lashes sticky with dried tears. Everything hurt. Her head throbbed with a dull, ache. Her wrists burned. Her mouth was dry, tasting of chemicals and fear. Where was she? The ceiling above her was unfamiliar. A single bare bulb hung from a wire, casting harsh shadows that made everything look twisted and wrong. Elena tried to sit up and couldn't. Her wrists were tied. Rough rope bit into her skin, binding her hands behind her back. Her ankles were tied too, secured to the legs of the chair she was sitting in. She pulled against the restraints, panic flooding through her small body. "Mommy!" The word tore from her throat, raw and desperate. "Daddy! Help me! Please!" Her voice echoed in the empty space, bouncing off concrete walls "MOMMY! DADDY!" Elena s

We're analyzing everything we found," Chen continued. "The backpack, the jacket, they might tell us where Elena has been even if they won't tell us where she is now" Pierce held Rosa against his chest, feeling her break apart in his arms. She'd been so happy in the car, so certain. They'd allowed themselves to believe for forty-three minutes that their daughter was coming home. And now this. "The person who set this up made mistakes," Morrison said. "They always do. We're tracking the burner phone purchase, analyzing the tire tracks, and processing every inch of that property. This isn't over." But it felt over. Pierce stared at the closed laptop, at the folder, at the two detectives with their practiced compassion. It felt like watching Elena disappear all over again. "Can we see them?" Rosa's voice came out broken, barely audible. "Her things. Can we see her backpack?" "They're being processed right now," Chen said gently. "But once forensics is done…" "I need to see them." Ro