Don't Look Back Novel Novels & Stories

One second before the ceremony was set to begin, my groom, Alvin Mercer, suddenly turned and walked out. "Lillian, Hannah's exhibition is falling apart. She's home alone right now and I have to be with her. We'll reschedule the wedding." Hannah Deneuve was the maid's daughter he'd grown up with. I caught him by the cuff. My voice came out flat and cold. "Alvin, this is the sixth time you have called off our wedding for her. If you walk out that door today, you and I are finished." But Alvin flung my hand off. "Enough! We can get married any time. Hannah needs me right now!" He left without looking back, and my heart slowly went cold. The priest clutched his Bible, visibly uncomfortable, and

CAELUM The second my gaze turned to Solenne standing in a sexy red night dress at the bottom of the stairs I knew I was fucked. She would shoot herself to protect these kids and I couldn't let them go. I wouldn't harm them though, well, unless they were little brats for me.

My hand starts moving, and I realize I’ve written three words in tiny, cramped letters in the corner of the page: > Don’t look back. I don’t know if that’s about the predators. Or him. Either way, I can’t stop thinking about the way they scattered the second he arrived. And the way he didn’t look at them once he had. He looked at me. ---

But Simon never looked back. ***

"The return is not the end. The return is the continuation." Don looked at him. "Yes," he said. "That is what the novel is about. The dark is the experience. The return is life. The dark changes you, but you do not stay in the dark. You come back, and you live, and the change is in the living."

There was no game in it, and no profit. "In this life, Luke Bennett can no longer be a good person. "But in the next life, I want to be one. "I do not dare hope that you will like me again. "I only want to stand cleanly before you on a bright, breezy day, reach out my hand, and tell you, my name is Luke Bennett. "In the next life, will we still have that beginning? "Luke. Final letter." The flames rose again. This time, what burned was the letter.

During that time, James and Thomas were comforting Sophia. At that moment, I felt a deep rage—rage at myself for being so naive and for causing my daughter's death. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on the day when my son handed me the leash. This time, I was determined to make them all pay. - When Thomas placed the dog leash in my hands, I snapped back to reality. I stumbled back a few steps and threw the leash aside. It hit me then—I had been reborn. In my past life, it was this very dog that had taken my and Alice's lives!

However, his face looked pale, and dark shadows circled his eyes. He looked like someone who hadn't slept in days. Vincenzo had an unreadable look when he saw me, yet he said nothing. We followed the notary through each step of the procedure. When it came time for the final confirmation, Vincenzo suddenly asked, "Freya, is there really no way for us to go back to how things were?" "No," I replied without hesitation. Vincenzo's gaze dimmed. He said nothing more as he signed his name on the documents.

Now, all at once, it hit me that everything I had given over the years had been nothing more than a one-sided effort. I was just about to book a flight when I realized I had forgotten my ID and passport, so I had no choice but to return home. The moment I opened the door, I was greeted by a mess all over the floor. Leftover snacks were scattered everywhere, along with half-finished dishes left behind. Right by the bedroom door lay something impossible to miss—a box of levonorgestrel pills and a piece of wine-red lingerie. Willow had never liked being physically intimate with me. Even Naomi's existence had come from a drunken incident.

When the show ended, heavy rain poured down, washing away all the filth and ugliness. A rainbow stretched across the horizon. I understood then that whatever didn’t kill me would only make me stronger. Now that I had a new life, there was no need to be chained to the past. I was no longer someone who stayed still. I would keep moving forward because only then could I find more beautiful scenery. My future was full of endless possibilities.