All Chapters of No Road Home: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Before Cecily could respond, I turned and left, marking the order as delivered on my phone.When I looked up, the elevator had arrived.A woman in a black suit dress looked me up and down. Just as I thought she had recognized me, my sister Lydia Nash frowned and brushed past me without a word. As the elevator doors closed, I heard her voice, dripping with disdain."The security at this hotel is terrible. They're letting delivery people just walk right in now? If one of them steals something, who's going to answer for it?"After all these years, Lydia still looked down on everyone she considered beneath her. Adrian, to be precise, was the only exception.Ten years ago, I had been the youngest director of cardiothoracic surgery at my hospital, with multiple patents to my name and a career full of promise. That same year, I proposed to Cecily, my girlfriend of three years. The following June, we had a beautiful daughter.If the story had ended there, I would have been the happiest m

The dinner was set at Bayshore Grand.I did not treat it as anything special, so I showed up in the same stain-resistant work clothes I always wore. Adrian, on the other hand, was dressed to impress.It was hard to believe that the man whose family had gone bankrupt overseas, who had been forced to come back with nothing, had clawed his way to the top by stepping on me. He had latched onto both the Monroe and Nash families and never looked back.My gaze landed on the designer watch on his wrist, easily worth over a million. I had seen the same one in Cecily's online shopping cart once. She had never mentioned it, and at the time, I had been foolish enough to think it was an anniversary gift meant for me.Looking back, they had probably been carrying on behind my back even then.Adrian lifted his wrist with a deliberate flourish, pretending to check the time. The overpowering stench of hair gel coming off him nearly made me gag. He mistook my reaction for jealousy and leaned in clo

Cecily stared at me in disbelief. "You... actually married someone else?"Her tone was thick with accusation, as though I were the one who had betrayed her. She seemed to have forgotten that the divorce papers had been her idea. She was the one who had signed them and mailed them to me.She had told me that my imprisonment was damaging the Monroe Group's reputation in Stonebridge. The divorce was just a formality, she said, a temporary measure. Once I was out, we would register again.By then, Lydia had already publicly severed ties with me in the papers. Cecily was all I had left. Even if I did not believe her, I had no choice but to sign.After that night, she never contacted me again.I nodded. "Remarrying is perfectly normal, isn't it? You married Adrian the moment our divorce was finalized."Cecily bit her lip and murmured, "It's not the same. What Adrian and I have..."Catherine cut her off with a scornful laugh, "You're right, it's not the same. Vincent and I got together

I did not care what any of them had to say. I held Milo close and walked out without looking back.Outside the restaurant, the evening breeze carried a faint chill and swept the lingering smell of blood from the air. For reasons I could not quite explain, the stone that had been sitting on my chest for six years felt like it was finally starting to shift."You looked so cool back there." Catherine sidled up to me, grinning like the cat that got the cream.I laughed in spite of myself and ruffled her hair. "You weren't bad yourself. You nearly tore the whole place apart.""They had it coming for messing with you." She muttered it under her breath, then pulled out her phone with a conspiratorial look. "While I was in Verenne this trip, I made a side trip back to the mainland and dug up some interesting things."On the screen were detailed financial statements and transaction records. Catherine scrolled through them and stopped on a massive transfer made six years ago from a private