All Chapters of Claiming The Heiress: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Alejandro I will ruin them all. I will find a fucking way to bring them all to their knees for this insult. As I stand there with my head bowed, it’s all I can think about. And it’s not even about me, it’s about the way they dare to treat Katerina.But I hold it. For now. I hold it for her and it kills me, because I have to be quiet now. One wrong word and it can all go down bad. Keep it together, I remind myself again and again even when pure rage almost blinds me. Rage and fucking devastation. She should not see this. She should not have to hear these lies. She’s not built for a world where in the middle of the night people who are supposed to protect you come and take whatever they want away from you. This is not her world, it is mine. And it kills me that she’s a part of it now.I am struggling to find my bearings, my ears ringing with the punches I got for even trying to speak, to warn Katerina to be careful with these feral dogs, to not s

Alejandro Alejandro Something closes up inside me. My throat feels immediately heavy as coldness starts spreading through me. A sudden frost I never expected to feel again after…Katerina’s gaze is unyielding. She looks closed off, the shadows under her eyes deep and final. Her arms are crossed at her chest as if she’s trying to defend herself, to keep her distance. From me?I shake my head. The sudden no, no, no matches the beat of my heart and quickly becoming the only thing I can hear, the only thought in my head. My entire world is suddenly narrowed in on the woman in front of me and the verdict that I know will come out of her lips in mere seconds. Nothing matters but her disbelief - not the bars keeping me separated from her, not the lies that might ruin every bit of future I have left, not the injustice.Still, the words do slip out of my mouth, cold, desperate. Pleadi

Alejandro  Alejandro Electricity passes through me the moment she touches me. For a brief moment it’s like my heart looses its beat and stops for a second, for the time it needs to readjust and start beating again, in the rhythm of her world.A small smile tugs the corners of her lips and I hold her gaze, unspoken words passing through us. I do trust her. It might be irrational, senseless, but I don’t care. I will fight, do whatever the hell I need to get out of this place, to protect her from the dirt that’s been following me since the moment I was born, even if it means going to war against the entire world.I am about to open my mouth and say it so there’s no doubt left, but that’s when the guard announces the time is up and just like that, I am left alone in my small cell, trapped like the animal they call me to be.I pace the confined space, my mind reelin

Katerina I sit alone in the dimly lit kitchen, a cup of long turned cold coffee in front of me, and just stare at the rising sun. My eyes feel heavy from the lack of sleep and my entire body is stiff as I spent the night tossing and turning in my bed until I just gave up and came here. It’s been two days, two long tormenting days and they still haven’t let Alejandro go. According to Eva they are keeping him only due to some formality at this point, to spook us probably, and here I am, alone, unable to stop my thoughts from roaming freely in my head,  each darker than the other.Just to be sure, I check my phone again. 6:30. The only new message is from my little brother stopping to say hi and fill me in on the new family drama. He doesn’t know what’s going on here, no one back home does, because how the hell do I explain something like this to any of them? No words should be

Katerina The house is big and stylish, modern. It’s soulless in a way only buildings made mainly out of glass and concrete could be. It looks completely out of place on a tropical island surrounded by wilderness and exotic trees I can’t even name.Next to me, Manuel looks extremely uncomfortable. He’s been here before, at the Sandoval’s estate, for one reason or another. After all, he’s the island’s only priest and people here are religious as hell, even the most evil among them. Of course everyone is quick to invite him to their places, to show how good hearted they all are. Not rotten to the core or vile like fucking demons.As I wait at the front door for the housekeeper to announce my arrival, I scan the area with narrowed eyes. There’s no flower garden, not like the one back at Pedro’s house. Here there’s only grass which looks freshly cut, the lawn manicured to perfection, but aga