All Chapters of Bella: Before everything : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Wiping her tears away, the pain, the sadness, the betrayal she felt had now been coldly replaced by hatred and anger.Different voices filled her head, and her vision grew blurrier with every second that passed.Everything is going to be okay. This is just an obstacle you are going to overcome. You will conquer, a gentle voice whispered inside her soft, comforting, almost too kind for the storm raging in her chest.But another voice, darker and more sinister, shouted louder.You should end your life end it right now! All this pain will cease to exist. You’ll finally rest from everything. Trust me, it hissed, cruel and convincing.No, Bella, don’t do that! the softer voice begged desperately. Ending your life is not a solution. It will never be a solution. It will separate you from God for eternity. It will bring nothing but regret. Remember, this is only temporary pain. You’ve overcome worse before. Please, don’t kill yourself.She stood up lifelessly, her body moving as if it no lon

How can someone be in such a miserable state yet look so gorgeous, even in their sleep? Riven thought to himself as he unknowingly admired her. The moonlight fell through the window, soft and silver, perfectly casting itself across Bella’s face. The glow made her look almost unreal - ethereally beautiful, painfully fragile. Each shadow outlined her features with quiet tenderness; even the faint rise and fall of her chest seemed hypnotic. Her heavy breaths slowly softened into shallow ones as peace settled into her slumber. For the first time that night, she looked calm , free. But then, a small tear slipped from the corner of her closed eye and landed gently on Riven’s hand. He froze. His gaze dropped to the tiny droplet resting against his skin -warm, trembling, and alive. A strange sensation stirred within him. His heart skipped a beat at the touch of her tear. It burned not in pain, but in a way that felt unfamiliar, almost unbearable. Then another tear fell.

Riven walked to his big, luxurious bathroom. The floor was made of black–tinted tiles veined with caramel-whitish stripes that brightened the darkness beneath his feet. The walls carried the same rich pattern, making the entire room feel sleek, cold, and expensive.A white cylindrical bathtub sat like a throne in the middle of the room, surrounded by soft, pinkish lavender candles unlit, but still screaming luxury.The shower, made of spotless glass, stood tall at the corner. Its tiles were pitch-black. Riven opened the handle of the shower, carefully mixing the cold and hot water together until the temperature felt just right warm, but not hot. Not like the boiling-hot showers women took as if they were peeling chicken skin off. Just warm… with a little bit of cold.While the water ran, he brushed his teeth with Colgate, rinsed his mouth, and shaved the faint mustache on his face with an expensive shaving cream one that left only the small line of hair beneath his bottom lip. That wa

Riven dropped a dead stare. The small smirk and smile on his face completely washed away. He turned into some kind of alpha mafia hot king with just one look cold, unreadable. The stare sent instant chills crawling all the way down Bella’s spine. Goosebumps lifted on her skin as though her body sensed something before her mind did. She didn’t like the way Riven looked at her. It wasn’t innocent play anymore it was a game she wanted no part of. “Why are you looking at me like that?” Bella breathed out, stepping away from him. The closer he walked toward her, the farther she moved back, like a magnet pulling her and pushing her all at once. “Wha… wha… what are you doing?” Bella signed biting her tongue as her hand found the wall behind her. The atmosphere thickened instantly heavy, charged, almost suffocating in a way that was both dangerous and addicting. Too intense. Too deep for comfort. She reached the wall nowhere left to run. Her back warmed against it. Riven stopped just

After a thirty-minute drive filled with nothing but thick, awkward silence, Bella tightly gripped the seat fabric beneath her fingers. Her knuckles turned pale as Riven drove like a reckless man possessed,professional yet dangerous. He obeyed no stop signs, ignored red lights, and didn’t seem to care about the furious drivers honking behind him.If only they knew who sat behind that black-tinted glass, they wouldn’t dare make a sound.After nearly causing three accidents and leaving behind a trail of confused, half-collided cars, Riven finally pulled into one of the VIP parking lots of the city mall.Bella’s heart was still pounding as if it wanted to escape her chest. She had shrunk into her seat, terrified to even look at the road again. Each near miss had made her breath catch in her throat. Riven, however, looked completely unbothered, like danger was his natural environment.He killed the engine with a calm flick of his wrist and turned his head toward her. The small movement mad