Lahat ng Kabanata ng Beneath His Cold Vows: Kabanata 291 - Kabanata 300

"There's always a personal motivation. Mine is that I know what I did and I know what she didn't do. Those are two different things and they've been treated as the same thing this morning." A man at the back. Older. The kind of journalist who had been in enough rooms to know when something was wort

Edward's POV The phone had been buzzing before I opened my eyes. I already knew who it was. Vivienne's name on the screen. I watched it go to voicemail. It started again immediately. I answered. "You need to issue a statement." Her voice was the one she reserved for situations she had already d

Edward's POV Cold. That was first. Not pain. Cold. Starting at the edges of things and moving inward with the patience of something that knows it will get there eventually. The sky. Too bright. I tried to hold it in my sight and couldn’t. Sound arrived in the wrong order—a voice, then none, the

I replayed the street. The engine. The register change. Edward moving. No hesitation. That was the detail I could not move beyond, no matter how I tried to approach it. Edward calculated everything. Every sentence was chosen before it was spoken. Every room was entered with a decision already mad

His lips moved. "...How long?" Low. Strained. Like the words cost more than they should have. "Since yesterday." He watched me. A beat longer than necessary. "You didn't go home." Not a question. Just a fact he had already arrived at before saying it aloud. "I stepped out a few times." I kept