All Chapters of Game Over, Mr. Devoss: Your Wife Is Gone: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

CHAPTER 12Isla POVThe beeping came first, steadily and I followed the sound out of the dark. Slowly I became aware of my own body: the throb in my head, the dry ache in my throat, the dull pull across my ribs with every breath.For a moment I didn't know where I was. Then the pieces came back on their own. The warehouse, the rope biting into my wrists, Lucinda dragged away into the dark, the timer counting down, and Jaxon's voice choosing her name instead of mine. Then the Fire.My eyes opened.White light flooded in, and I shut them again immediately, blinking until my sight adjusted enough to take in the room. White walls, a monitor tracking a slow, steady beep beside the bed, and an IV taped to the back of my hand.A hospital. I was alive, thank goodness. My hand found my stomach before I even finished the thought, pressing flat against the blanket. My baby.A nurse appeared at my side before I could do more than that. "You're awake." She checked the monitor, then reached for t

Chapter 14Jaxon pov The room became quiet.An emotion crossed my mother’s face, brief and difficult to understand. It looked almost like guilt, but it disappeared before I could be certain. “I know this is difficult,” she said and the way she did made my hands clench–like Isla’s death was an inconvenience that had delayed the life she wanted me to have. “Do you?”Her mouth tightened. “Of course I do.”“You hated her,” I snapped.“That doesn’t mean I wanted her dead,” she retorted.“No mother, you just wanted her gone.”“Jaxon–”“You spent years making sure she knew she wasn’t welcome in this family.”She glanced toward Ethan like she expected him to step in, didn't."She embarrassed herself constantly," my mother said. "I tried to help her adjust. She refused to make any effort."I laughed, and there was nothing warm in it. "She made an effort every day.""She was never suited to this family.""She was my wife!” I yelled."And Lucinda is carrying your child!” she snapped.The words

Chapter 16Isla (Elara) POV"Elara," Ryan said my name slowly, like he needed to hear himself say it before he could trust it. "Elara, is that really you?""It's me." My voice came out rough, torn up from the smoke. "I need you to come get me.""Where are you? Are you safe? Tell me you're safe."I looked at the door. The nurse said two minutes, and I'd already burned one just staring at the phone, trying to decide if I should even make this call. "St. Catherine's. East side. They've got me down as Jane Doe, so don't ask for me by name.""Jesus. Okay. I'm grabbing my keys right now." I heard him moving on the other end, a door shutting somewhere. "The money went out this morning, by the way. Ten million dollars, gone from some account I've never even heard of. You're going to explain that to me the second I see you.""I will.""Are you hurt? How bad?"I looked down at the bandages on my wrists, the tape holding the IV in the back of my hand, the blanket that wasn't doing a thing to sto

Chapter 18 Isla (Elara) POVThe Cooper estate hadn't changed.The same iron gates opened slowly as the car pulled up, revealing the long driveway lined with trees my father had planted before I was even born. Beyond them stood the mansion I'd spent most of my childhood trying to escape– huge, beautiful.For four years I'd told myself I didn't miss this place. I remembered the endless family dinners, the parties I hated attending, the security trailing me everywhere, the weight of every expectation that came with being a Cooper. Back then the house had felt more like a cage than a home.But sitting in the car now, wrapped in a blanket, bruises covering half my body, I couldn't remember why I'd hated it so much. Maybe because I'd just learned what it felt like to have nowhere safe to go back to.The car had barely stopped when the front door opened. Ryan came out first, Liam and Jake right behind him, and all three of them froze at the bottom of the stairs, staring at the car like they

Chapter 20Jaxon POVI was going through the final pages of a contract when my phone started ringing on the desk.I barely glanced at it at first. I'd spent most of the morning moving from one meeting to another, and the documents in front of me still needed reviewing before I could leave the office. The phone stopped, then started again a few seconds later.With an irritated sigh, I picked it up and Lucinda’s name flashed across the screen.I almost didn’t pick up the call. She'd already called twice that morning, and I wasn't in the mood for another conversation about dinner plans or whatever my mother had talked her into now.Still, I decided to answer. "I'm at work, Lucinda. You should–""Jaxon."Her voice was thin and shaking, nothing like the cheerful tone she normally used on the phone."I'm bleeding," she whispered. "There's so much blood. I don't know what's happening."I pushed my chair back and stood up so fast it scraped loudly against the floor."Where are you?""At the ho