Catherine Pinkerton Novels & Stories

Then came Catherine. The footage switched to her outside the courthouse steps, Catherine Blackwood, the woman who could freeze oceans with a glare, now disheveled, shouting at the press. Her lipstick smeared, her voice cracking as she snapped at reporters. “Leave my daughter alone! Do you hear me? She’s my daughter!” Her daughter. She said it again and again, like a confession. Zane’s hand rested casually on my knee. “Well,” he murmured, “she finally admitted it.”

Just then, her assistant panicked and yelled, "Healer Petra, the patient's stopped breathing. What's going on?" Only then did they realize I was poisoned by wolfsbane. It was already so deep in my system that I was beyond saving. "Healer Petra, what do we do now?" the assistant asked, clearly flustered. Looking resigned, Healer Petra shook her head and said, "Continue the surgery. Since the patient's already dead, let's not waste the kidney." I drifted out of the operating room. Outside, Mom, Dad, and Simon were all waiting anxiously. "Why isn't the surgery over yet?" Mom asked, looking worried. "They've been in there for so long!"

He said, and with how he spoke, he did not leave room for me to say no. Breakfast was served, and we ate quietly. After eating, Keith excused me, and I decided to return to my room. On my way there, a woman stopped me with tears in her eyes. She did not look well, and it seemed she had struggled with the workers to get to me. Her dress was ripped, and her mascara was messy. Her hair was rough and messy. "So you are the reason he is sending us away, you skinny piece of shit." "Watch your tone, lady Emmanuella," someone cautioned her. I believed it was the butler, Morgan.

Catherine stood beside the trainer, her small hands holding a leather brush, carefully grooming the pony’s mane with an expression of intense, serious concentration that she had inherited entirely from her mother. "Remember to use long, gentle strokes, princess," I said, my deep voice carrying across the quiet ring as I leaned against the wooden fence, my arms crossed over my chest. Catherine looked up, her dark eyes instantly lighting up with an unburdened, brilliant joy. She handed the brush to the trainer and ran toward the fence, her small boots clicking against the hard-packed dirt before I reached down, lifting her effortlessly into my arms and settling her against my shoulder. "Look,

"And I told him something I had never told anyone." "What," Alexander said. Catherine looked at him. She had been looking at him since they arrived. The way someone looks at a person they have imagined meeting for a long time and keeps being surprised by the reality. "I knew your mother," she said. "Margaret Knight." Elena felt Alexander go still beside her. "She came here seventeen years ago," Catherine said. "She had found something inside Knight Holdings and didn't know who to trust. Someone gave her my name." "Grace Okafor," Elena said.

Her pulse was still ticking fast. “Exactly,” Alden said. “You said something useful. That’s the difference.” They walked a few paces in silence, then he added, almost conversationally, “Princess Katarina remembers the people who make her life easier. It can open doors, being on her good side.” She didn’t say anything else. But the memory of Katarina’s “thank you,” of being looked at, not through, not past, but at. - - - That night, after everyone had worked to exhaustion and had gone to sleep, Catherine sat on the edge of her bed, fingers worrying the hem of her apron. Elizabeth stood by the small table, arms folded, listening as her daughter spoke.

Santos arrived at the loft the next morning with a thick file. "We know who Catherine Cross is now. Her current identity. What she's been doing all these years." He spread photos across the table. Woman in her late fifties. Elegant. Perfectly styled gray hair. Expensive clothes. Warm smile. She looked like someone's grandmother. Not a killer. "Catherine Cross is currently living as Catherine Whitmore. Philanthropist. Socialite. Board member of seven charities. Donor to hospitals, museums, children's organizations."

I said nothing, letting him continue. “A friend of mine, he knew someone who could help. He introduced me to Catherine,” Pierre said, his gaze distant. “She was… intimidating. Elegant but cold, like she didn’t have a heart. She made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. She’d cover every expense for Samuel’s treatment, no questions asked.” My fists tightened under the table. “And what did she ask for in return?”

“Thank you, baby. Go to your room and bring Andy with you.” “Is there something wrong, daddy?” “Nothing, princess. Go!” When the kids left, Tyler faced me. “The keychain has a tracker. I’ll have my men check her location.” I immediately nodded. “Please do. I’m worried.” Tyler Walter called his men while I kept on pacing back and forth, waiting. I’m still trying to call Serena when my eyes landed on a woman sitting on the couch. She looked bothered unlike earlier. Catherine was constantly biting her lip and her eyeballs are aggressively moving like as she's tensed. Her fingers are constantly tapping her legs and she's swallowing hard every chance she gets.

the woman asked, her voice hoarse. "That's me. You wanted to talk about Kade?" "Not just talk. Warn you." Catherine's eyes darted around nervously. "Can we speak somewhere private? What I have to say... it's dangerous." They brought her to a small meeting room in the pack house. Dante joined them, his protective instincts on high alert. Catherine accepted water gratefully before speaking. "My name is Catherine Moore. Three years ago, I was a healer in Silvermoon Pack. I was there the night Elena died."