No Way Back Jane Fowler Novels & Stories

"If you are truly Stanley, why have you remained hidden all this time?" "Your Majesty, I had already intended to retire." Jane's voice was steady and composed. "After I was injured in the war against Romenia, I planned to leave it all behind. I never expected to be called back into battle again, nor did I expect Jocelyn to steal my identity. "To keep the Morris family from being implicated, I chose to go along with it. If Jocelyn had done well and taken care of the Morris family in my place, I would have let her be. But she went so far as to destroy the Drakonas Squadron.

The specific feeling of a thing finding where it belonged after a long time of being somewhere else. Home. Not the apartment I had gone back to. Not any specific address. Just the city. Just New York. Just home. And then Griffin's wedding. And the speech. And Beckett saying my name in a Brooklyn garden and the word present and both eyes and all of it coming through a tilted phone screen from two thousand miles away. I sat in the dark of my Portland apartment after Griffin hung up and thought about what came next. The testimony. The formal return. The legal process of becoming Daniel Rowe again after five years of being someone else.

"Who even are you without me? Do you really think the Jones family will welcome back their daughter who was lost for 18 years, just to freeload off of them?" The conference room fell silent, and the executives barely dared to breathe. Elara's voice remained cool like a tranquil lake as she continued, "Harvey, I simply won't be Mrs. Fisher anymore after leaving you. I just want to go back to being Elara Jones. "If the Jones family won't have me, I'll revert to my original name. Being with you is just exhausting. I've been the only one putting in effort to love you and to love our son…" Elara then let out a faint laugh before adding, "I'm convinced there's no path in this world more torturous

"How could you let her get away?" Mrs. Larson said tearfully, "I … I locked the door, but I never expected Mr. Fowler to show up. He restrained me the moment I opened the door!" Lewis rubbed his temples in annoyance and said after a moment of silence, "Forget it. Let her go." "What? Are you just going to let her be?" "Then how about you bring her back?" Mrs. Larson was stunned for a moment. Where would she find Josephine? She didn't even know where Quintin had taken her. "Okay, I understand. So will Mr. Fowler bring her back?"

How are you holding up? Jane was about to reply, when she noticed a white utility van circling the block in her periphery. Her heart stopped in her chest. There was a blonde woman driving… dressed in leather. Even at this distance, Jane would have recognized Anita anywhere. The van was circling the block, and Jane quickly gathered her things, ducking around the corner. She pulled the fireworks from her shopping bag, laying them out in the mouth of an alley and setting the charges. She ripped the tracking chip out of it’s package, and peeked back around the corner, watching as the van rolled up to the gate.

She threatened me and I laughed mockingly. “Oh really? You really think you can land me in jail? It seems you don’t really know me. Let me refresh your memory. I am Jane, just Jane. I don’t belong to anybody, I don’t belong to any leverage. I am just me. And nobody messes with Jane. You know why? Because I know all your little secrets that can make you look terrible in front of the judge. Now, to avoid wasting words with you, I will just send you the documents on your W******p phone and you go through it. So you see what I know about you is heavyweight and trust me, you don’t want the entire country to know it. Because you will be spending the rest of your life in jail.” I threatened her bac

But now, hearing that she had disappeared from the building, the regret of not having forced her to come was eating away at my soul. What if that male had taken her? What if he was doing things to her? I could barely breathe as I thought about it, as my wolf pushed those imaginary images into my mind in an attempt to torture me for not forcing Jane to move to Eldrynhouse. "My prince, there was a small incident at the building. Someone set fire to the dumpsters. Some kind of distraction, but we believe she may have run away and wasn't kidnapped," Joe said on the other end of the line.

"If you can't dig up her past, then start with the people around her. I want everything friends, colleagues, anyone she’s interacted with." "...Understood. About the payment—" "Have I ever underpaid you?" "Never. That’s why we’ll get it done." As the call ended, Vanessa tossed her phone on the table and frowned deeply. Why had Jane come back now? Did she really want to die again? Over the years, she’d watched Logan fall apart because of that woman.A strange, heavy feeling settled in her chest. Jane Alder… She was a problem Vanessa thought she'd buried. And now she was back.

"I ha‍v‍e no a⁠ns‌wer for that. My direc⁠tive‌s came solely from Thorne. Claudia's⁠ per⁠sonal ve‍ndettas are no‍t in my brief‌ing packe‍t. Perhaps she wa‌s not r‌ead into his true status. Perhaps it is... purely p⁠ersonal. I do not know." H⁠er motives were a shadow with‍in a sha‌dow. Then another thought pierced throu‌gh. It was cold and sharp as a sha‌rd of glass. Jane. My vibran⁠t, stubborn best friend. Sh‌e vanis‍he‌d tw⁠o years ago‌.⁠ She h‍ad asked too many point‍ed questions about C⁠laudia's new "investors." "Jane Fowler," I said. My voice hardened into‍ something that c⁠ould cut.⁠ "My friend who d‌is⁠ap‌peared⁠.‍ Did Aegis have a hand in‌ that?"

he says urgently and Erica stood up alarmed. "What?How!"she asks desperately "Kaleb just called me,he is already on his way there" Okay I am confused what are they talking about. "What are you guys talking about?What is wrong with Jane?" I say my heart beating wildly "She has gone back to Texas. She is not supposed to be there after she tried to kill herself over there"Erica cries "Wh... What!kill her.. herself "I stutter