Chapter 181: Broken Together

MELANIEWhat did I just hear? Silvio is Gavin’s brother?I stared at him.“Your brother is dead,” I said slowly, pulling my brows together, trying to understand what just came out of his mouth. “You told me he was dead. You said it the day you cooked for me in your house. You looked me in the eye and said he was gone. So... how is Silvio your brother?”Gavin’s thumb stopped moving against my hand. He didn’t look surprised by the question; he just looked tired.“I thought he was,” he said quietly. “For years I believed it. Everyone did. He was supposedly killed by the same people he went to work for.” He let out a quiet, disbelieving breath as the reality settled in. “But he didn't die. They took him and made me believe he was dead. I built a whole life around the idea that my little brother was gone.”I waited, my heart beating too fast.“Then he wasn’t,” Gavin continued. “He turned up again under a different name. By the time I put the pieces together, he was already deep in that lif

Chapter 182: The Goodbye

MELANIETwo weeks had passed, but it still felt so raw, like everything happened yesterday.The memorial was held in a small private garden behind a chapel. There was no crowd, just the people who needed to be there. White chairs lined up with a wooden table at the front that held two framed photographs—one of Eva, smiling with her hand resting on her stomach, and one of Logan from years back, before anyone had called him Silvio. A single arrangement of white flowers stood between the frames.I sat near the middle with Gavin beside me, with my arms still in a sling. Derek sat in the front row with his girlfriend Gabby next to him. Reynold was on Derek’s other side. Surprisingly, they had become close.My mother and Vivian sat a few seats over, while Joe was here for Gavin. He stood at the edge of the group, with his hands in his pockets. A woman from the chapel opened the service.“We are here this afternoon to remember two lives that ended too soon,” she said, speaking solemnly. “E

Chapter 183: The Final Iron Gate

MELANIEThe air inside the federal correctional facility smelled like bleach and rust. The buzz of the heavy steel doors echoed behind me, three loud thuds that sealed me inside the visitor’s room. I sat down on the metal stool on my side of the thick glass partition. My left arm was out of the sling now, leaving only a faint, pale scar near my shoulder—a permanent reminder of the bullet my father had meant for the man I loved.Outside the facility, Gavin waited in the car. He had offered to come in with me, but I told him I needed to do this alone.An iron door on the opposite side of the glass opened, and my father walked in, flanked by two armed guards.The man who used to own ballrooms and command attention looked smaller in the orange jumpsuit. It was almost sad to see.His hair had gone almost completely gray and hung unstyled. The million-dollar practiced smile he always wore was gone, replaced by a permanent scowl. Handcuffs kept his wrists close to the waist chain, and th

All Chapters of Off-Limits Puck: Daddy's Best Friend is my Ruin: Chapter 181 - Chapter 183

Chapter 181: Broken Together

Chapter 182: The Goodbye

Chapter 183: The Final Iron Gate