All Chapters of Don’t Beg for Love : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

The question irritated me more than it had any right to, but I forced my hands to stay loose at my sides instead of curling into fists.“I won’t repeat myself,” I said. “Where did you take her?”Aiden started stammering, some half-formed denial catching in his throat, and the officer beside him didn’t wait for him to finish. A fist connected with his jaw hard enough to send him sprawling to the floor of the cell.“Can’t you understand a simple question?” the officer barked.Aiden groaned, pushing himself up on one elbow. “I don’t know,” he gasped out. “I’ve been locked in here for days. How would I know anything about her?”I didn’t believe a word of it.I glanced toward the officer standing beside me, and something in my expression must have carried the question clearly enough, because he answered without me having to voice it.“Only two visitors have come to see him,” he said. “A middle-aged woman and a young lady.”“What did they talk about?”“Come with me. I’ll show you the footag

Andrew’s POVMy heart hadn’t slowed down yet.Even with her safe, even with the doctor’s reassurance still fresh in my ears, the panic from the last few hours refused to fully drain out of my system. It sat lodged somewhere behind my ribs, a low, persistent thrum that wouldn’t quiet no matter how many times I told myself she was fine now.A minute. If we’d arrived a single minute later, I didn’t know what state I would have found her in. I didn’t let myself finish that thought all the way through. I couldn’t.I sat there watching her sleep, her hand still wrapped tight around mine like she was afraid letting go would send her back to wherever she’d just come from.She looked paler than she should have, her lips trembling faintly even in sleep, her brows pulling together every so often like something was still chasing her even now. My chest ached watching it.I freed my other hand and dabbed gently at the sweat gathering along her forehead, then let my fingers trail softly against her

Xander left eventually, promising he’d be back before I could even ask.Evening had settled in fully by then, the hallway outside gone quiet, the nurse having just administered the day’s final injection, something meant to help me sleep through the night.Except every time I closed my eyes, those men flashed behind my eyelids again, vivid enough to jolt me right back awake.I still couldn’t fully wrap my head around Cassandra being capable of any of this. Back when I was still with Aiden, I’d treated her like a little sister of my own. She’d never lacked for anything under my care, not once. Even after I’d started suspecting something had gone on between her and Aiden before our marriage, even after he’d finally sat me down one evening and admitted they’d dated years earlier, I hadn’t held it against her. She was an orphan, the same as I’d once been, and some part of me had wanted to give her the kind of care nobody had given me at that age.This was how she’d repaid it.The door crea

Grandpa’s words hung in the room like something physical, thick enough to press against my chest. Nobody moved. Nobody breathed too loudly. Even the machines beside my bed seemed to have gone quieter, as if the whole room understood that something enormous had just cracked open.Xander’s lips parted, but nothing came out. I couldn’t manage anything either, my mind still scrambling to catch up with words I didn’t want to be true.My mother stepped forward first, guiding Cassandra gently by the arm, tears already spilling freely down her cheeks. “Isn’t it a miracle?” Her voice trembled with something raw, something I hadn’t heard from her in years. “Our Amy, alive, after all this time. Heaven really does work in mysterious ways. When you two went missing twenty years ago, and then we found Annalise again ten years later, I never once let myself believe we’d ever find Amy too. Look what a blessing we’ve been given.”As she spoke, Cassandra’s eyes locked onto mine, fear and disbelief swim

The family had already left?I blinked, still trying to catch up with everything happening around me, when Andrew’s voice pulled me back to the present.“Who is Amelia?”Right. The nurse must have said that before slipping back out, and I hadn’t even noticed her leave.I didn’t know how to explain, not in any way that made sense out loud, that Cassandra had somehow turned into my long-lost little sister overnight. So I just shook my head and kept it simple. “Just a family member.”He studied me for a second like he wanted to ask more, but I spoke first, before he could. “Have you seen my phone?”He reached over to the bedside locker, pulled my bag out, and dug through it until he found the phone, handing it over without comment.The second the screen lit up, my stomach dropped. Hundreds of missed calls stacked up in the notification bar, most of them from Linda, the rest from Tania, calls piled on top of calls like both of them had been trying every few minutes since yesterday.Then i