Lahat ng Kabanata ng Beneath His Cold Vows: Kabanata 331 - Kabanata 340

Edward's POV Cole called my name. I had not moved in two hours. Not when the word pregnancy landed in that room and the quality of the air changed. I felt it through the partition the way you feel a shift in pressure before weather arrives. Not when everything she had built from a sold car and a

Alicia's POV The judge looked at her papers. The room held. I had been in this chair since nine o'clock. Through the cross-examination. Through Cole's redirect. Through seven months of my life laid out on a table for twelve strangers to weigh. Through footage of a corridor I had walked out of bef

Alicia's POV The lock clicked. I was inside. Elena had seen it. I could tell the moment she looked up. Not at my face. At everything the day had left on me. She unfolded from the couch and went to the kitchen. I heard the soft hiss of the bottle opening, the glug of whiskey into two glasses. I did

"Then I hold the line." "You hold it without flinching," Cole said. "Because the moment you reach for explanation she has you." We worked through it. The living room. The phone. The photographs loading in sequence. The message thread. The location pin. Each one, placed exactly in the timeline, not

For a moment nobody else moved. "Ms. Valentine." She opened her portfolio. "I want to raise something separate from what Franklin raised." She looked at me directly. "Vivienne Valentine holds a position in this company. Small but real. And she posted Lucy Harrington's bail three days after the arre