All Chapters of Cherished By the Devil: Chapter 61 - Chapter 69

I looked around the roof, desperately seeking a way out of my situation. My gaze traveled to the building on my left. It didn't seem that far away. Maybe I could jump through the gap between the buildings…?Fine, I knew that my idea was quite reckless, but I didn't have too many options. First, I turned around and closed the wooden door. Then I pushed an old, half-broken cabinet that stood by the door to block it. I knew that Ardian would follow me up here, and I needed any possible leverage I could get.The sun was setting, and the cold wind began to blow. That certainly wouldn't help with my jump. I stepped toward the verge and looked down. More bodies lay on the ground, mostly those who fought on Ardian's side, but would Grey's men manage to get into the restaurant before Ardian found me? Probably not.“Shit,” I muttered, tossing away my kitten heels and standing on the cold roof barefoot. Sucking in a shaky breath, I walked toward the left side, estimating my chances. The gap was

POPPYI opened my eyes and found Grey sitting on my side of the bed. He was fully dressed, as if he were ready to leave, which made me wonder how long I had slept. “What time is it?” I croaked.“It's almost six thirty.” His lips formed a faint smile. “I didn't mean to wake you up. You should sleep more.”I frowned. “Have you been sleeping at all?”He nodded. “I did.”I glanced at his side of the bed. The sheets were slightly crumpled, but I doubted he had slept long enough. “You were analyzing everything that happened at Tavolo Verde with Lanzo through most of the night, weren't you?”He cleared his throat, then grabbed my hand and kissed the sensitive skin on my wrist. “I had to. Someone leaked the information about you and our security, and I won't allow it to happen again. We have to find out who it was. So the next few days might be quite frantic.”My chest tightened. “I won't be able to see you…”He shifted his grip on my hand, intertwining our fingers. “I don't want to leave you

“And you just decided to trust her?!” Lanzo threw his hands up and started pacing around my office.I pinched the bridge of my nose. “She knows that it's the only way she can save her son… or end his suffering.”“And yet she chose to believe Valentino before. She told him our secrets,” Lanzo stated dryly. “What makes you think she will suddenly trust us to rescue the boy?”“She told them a few not-that-important pieces of information, and only because she panicked,” I reasoned. “Those fuckers sent her a video of her kid, along with a whole album of pictures of him as he'd been growing up while being tortured for years.”Lanzo worked his jaw, then blew out a breath. “Damn… That must have been a blow.”“She made herself believe she did the right thing back then,” I told him. “She called herself unsuitable to be a mother, and the only way she could live without guilt was knowing that her kid was safe. It turned out they'd tricked her twenty years ago, and now she was too devastated to se

I was standing in the center of a warehouse Grey had bought for our operation. Cory and I had our equipment set on a few tables. We would surely need it to prove to the reporters that our claims had been true.Leo and eight other soldiers guarded the exits; a few others patrolled outside, constantly examining every alley half a mile around the warehouse. I heard Leo talking on the phone with someone. A moment later, he walked toward Cory and me. “The reporters are coming,” he said. “The first two were already checked by the gates. They should be here in about a minute.”“Thanks.” I blew out a breath and rolled back my shoulders. “So we're about to begin.” I glanced at Cory.“Don't worry.” He patted my shoulder. “If they refuse to work with us, that will only mean that they're morons.”I smiled wryly. “But being a moron might cost them their lives, the lives we'd be responsible for since we invited them here.”A nervous laugh escaped him. “Then we should hope our intuition was right.”