جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 4

ROSEA few seconds later, I get up and decide to go check on my daughter, who's receiving treatment in the same hospital."Mummy," she screams excitedly as soon as I enter her ward. Her brownish doll eyes light up the whole place."Arabella…" I smile as I go in for a hug. I'm so excited to see my baby girl awake and full of life after months of treatment.But that happiness is short-lived as soon as I take a seat beside her bed and she asks, "Where's daddy? He always comes around on the weekend. I've been waiting for him."How am I supposed to answer her? How am I supposed to tell her that the man she calls father is a heartless fraudster?I so badly want to tell her that he isn't her biological father, but how can I crush her joy that way? Even though she has been in treatment for the past few months, she always goes out on the weekends with him."He's busy with work, darling. But he'll be here soon," I make up an excuse, even though I know Killian isn't going to come. He's now entan

ROSEFor a moment, I can't move. Because the boy on the couch is very small and fragile-looking. He's not even a teenager, and for some reason, my mind can't seem to comprehend what my eyes are seeing.This boy has been texting me for weeks, but I have been ignoring him, assuming that the words came from a grown man with a sharp mind and a touch of arrogance.But here he is: skinny arms, scraped knuckles, and eyes that hold far too much innocence.Then Dante's words click in my head; the boy who was murdered was Jordan's twin. And Jordan himself once told me his brother died at ten, two years ago. Which would make Jordan twelve now.And suddenly, guilt crashes over me as if someone drenched me in ice-cold water in the middle of winter. I feel guilty for every time I left his messages unanswered, for every moment I brushed him off because I felt I was too busy.Also, the second he sees me, he lights up like I just stepped out of his favorite movie. "Detective Rose!"Before I can react,