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Third Person POVGrandpa’s days are a blur now.Sometimes he wakes up when it’s bright out. Sometimes, he wakes up when it’s dark out. There’s no in between, and it’s disconcerting.But today, he wakes up when the sun just started to set. He gets up from his best and goes to the balcony, enjoying the view. He missed watching the sun set like this.However, instead of seeing beauty, he sees sadness in the sky. He remembers going to the lake with Allie and Melissa, when Andrew was still complying to everything he ever asked for. Allie sat next to him beside the lake, wanting to dip her toes into the water.“You can’t reach it from the dock yet,” he told her. She was what, only three years old? “If you try, you’re going to fall and we’re all going to have to find you because it’s getting late and the lake is deep.”The little girl got scared. She jumped into his lap and hugged him. “Please don’t let me fall, pee-paw.”He laughed. It was so silly to be the king of a business empire and be

Third Person POVEleanor swallows hard, feeling Hunter’s hand continuously tightening against her delicate throat. She puts a hand on his wrist, trying to get him to stop, but he doesn’t seem to care.“So after I put a baby in you, you decide to run away?” His face is too close to hers, only this time the illusion of romance and sex is gone.There’s only danger, something that she found so attractive now making her shake all over.“And now you parade around in the city wearing that bastard’s ring on your finger, like I didn’t exist?” Hunter laughs. “Like our child doesn’t exist. She’s blonde too, huh? You fucking dye her hair to hide where she came from?”Eleanor can only nod. Hunter is too smart to lie to, and she’s smart enough to know not to lie to him. She values her life. She knows that he won’t hesitate to kill her if she said the wrong thing. She knows that the only way to get out of this is to appease him.Slowly, she reaches between them and puts her hand on his shaft. He imm

Third Person POVEleanor stares at Andrew, not really knowing what to say. Suddenly the ring on her finger begins to burn as though it wants to tell Andrew everything that happened.She can still feel the effects of what she did with Hunter. Her inner thighs burn, her skin still tingling. Memories of the night fill her with excitement even with what happened.But she searches her heart, knowing that she should never stray away from the mission.“Andrew,” she begins to say, shaking her head. “Of course not. I’m not cheating on you. You know I would never do that.”Andrew backs off, relieved to hear her words. Eleanor never really gave him a reason to think she was cheating, even from the beginning. She always stuck to her side, calling him and only him for help. If she had been cheating, then she wouldn’t need him, right?And very clearly, she still does.“Good,” Andrew just says, hating the smell of cigarettes in her hair. “Whoever that friend is, I want you to stop talking to him. Ye

Melissa’s POVThe pain knocks my breath out of my lungs. I gasp, grasping at everything around me.But my bare hands only come into contact with more shards of glass.Blood is seeping from my skin now, my palms raw. Seeing it smeared around the carpet is making me a little bit dizzy. I lay there for what seems like a long time, unsure of how to get up until Andrew scoops me from the floor.“Are you alright?” he asks in concern, then he sees my hands and back. “Jesus, you’re bleeding. We need to get you to the hospital!”He leads me to the door carefully, but then I look back and see that Grandpa is clutching his chest. He’s pointing at the closet door.“The monster,” he pants, his breathing suddenly quickening. “She’s here….”His words sputter to a stop. His hand tightens around his chest. His breath hitches in his throat, and I immediately know that he’s having another heart attack.“Andrew!” I yell, pointing at Grandpa, and he turns around just in time to catch him as he starts to c

Third Person POVThe first thing that pierces through Eleanor’s consciousness is the beeping sound coming from something beside her.She opens her eyes, but it feels like there’s a film sticking to her eyelids, stopping her from fully waking up. She tries to let out a groan, thinking that will help, but it all seems… difficult.She can’t feel her chest moving. There’s a certain heaviness in her limbs that she can’t describe. It almost feels like she’s strapped down, and she can’t quite remember how she got into this situation….Melissa. Of course.Eleanor made a mistake of showing up at the hospital. She thought that Andrew would be alone. She believed it would have been the perfect time to show some sympathy and get some favor from him, but it turned out to be a mistake.Melissa saw her, and from there it was war.She didn’t even manage to fight back. Melissa came at her like a machine, slapping and kicking and screaming, giving her no time to defend herself. She never thought that Me