All Chapters of Safe In His Darkness : Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

EMILY, HANNAH…It had been two days since the incident at Alexander Antonio's company.Two days since I had stood face-to-face with the man Roman had warned me about.Two days since I had pointed a gun at him. And two days since I had pulled the trigger.Yet somehow, I still couldn't get his eyes out of my mind.Those eyes.The way he had looked at me.Not with anger. Not even with hatred. With something else. Something that had unsettled me far more than the gun in my hand ever could.Pain. Raw, unmistakable pain.The kind that made me feel as though I had done something terrible to him, even though I couldn't remember ever knowing him. I sat silently in the back seat as we drove through the gates of the Lomonosov estate that night.Mikhail sat beside me. Neither of us spoke.The atmosphere inside the car was heavy, almost suffocating. I kept my gaze fixed on the window, watching the dark trees blur past beneath the moonlight.I should have been relieved.We had escaped.The file Rom

EMILY, HANNAH The dining room was unusually quiet that morning. Sunlight streamed through the enormous windows, spilling across the long mahogany table and catching against the polished silverware. The soft clinking of utensils seemed almost too loud in the silence. I sat beside Mikhail, barely touching my breakfast.My mind was still somewhere else.Back in my room.Back with Roman's words.Don't trust Alexander. I hated that the more Roman told me not to trust him, the more questions seemed to rise inside me.Across the table, Roman calmly lifted his coffee cup. “I need you to know something, Mikhail.” Mikhail looked up. “Yes, Father?” “You'll be traveling to Florida today.” Mikhail nearly choked on his coffee. “What?” Roman didn't even blink. “Your private plane is already waiting.” Mikhail slowly lowered his cup, staring at his father in disbelief. “You're telling me this now?” “I didn't see the need to tell you earlier.” “Father, you couldn't have told me yesterday?”

EMILY, HANNAH…The first thing I felt was pain. A dull, throbbing ache pulsed behind my eyes, spreading slowly through my skull. Then came the heaviness,my entire body felt weak, as though I'd been asleep for days. I slowly opened my eyes. A ceiling stared back at me. White. Unfamiliar. For several seconds, I simply lay there, staring at it, trying to remember where I was.Then everything came rushing back.The accident. My breath caught. I remembered the accident from a year ago. Someone was beside me in the car. I remembered the sound of metal crushing against metal. The glass shattering around me. The pain. The panic. I had tried to move. I crawled out of the crushed car. I had wanted to call for help.And then, nothing.Everything had gone black.But now I remembered something else.Someone had hit me from behind.My heart began pounding.Fuck.Alexander.My eyes widened.I immediately pushed myself upright.Pain exploded through my head.I gasped and pressed a hand against my temp

EMILY, HANNAH…Alex fell silent. For several seconds, neither of us spoke. Everything he had just told me about our past seemed to hang heavily in the air between us.Our past.The words still felt strange.Impossible.I had spent months believing I knew who I was. Believing I knew where I belonged. Believing I knew the people who had saved me, protected me, and given me a life after I woke up with nothing but an empty space where my memories should have been.And now Alex had shattered all of it.My mind refused to accept any of it.I stared at him, searching his face for a lie.Anything.One contradiction.One hesitation.One tiny crack that would prove he had been manipulating me.One reason to believe that everything he had just told me was an elaborate lie designed to make me turn against Roman and everyone else.But I couldn't find one.Alex looked exhausted.Not angry.Not triumphant.Not like a man who had finally gotten what he wanted.He looked broken.As though telling me t

EMILY HANNAH.."Apparently, my wife discovered what I had done."His expression hardened."She found out that I caused the accident. She threatened to divorce me and report me to the police."His fingers tightened around the gun."So I killed her too."My heart shattered."Mikhail's mother...""She was the reason it took me so long to find you," Roman continued. "I wanted to kidnap you and force you to sign the documents yourself, but you were nowhere to be found."He smiled coldly."I searched for you for years."My eyes filled with tears."I never expected your friend Lexi to be clever enough to disappear with you. You both flew to Italy."He took another step toward me."Then Declon told me who you were."My heart pounded."He told me you were Alexander Antonio's girlfriend."Roman's voice became bitter."So I had to find a way to separate you from him.""Because he was too possessive of you," he continued. "He would never have allowed me anywhere near you."Tears spilled down my c