Novel & Cerita The Reckoning Novel

The Reckoning The clock on the dashboard read 3:45 AM as Mimi sped out of the Financial District. The city was a maze of sharp shadows and hostile architecture. Thorne’s final words,a promise of personal and permanent defeat reverberated in her mind, proving that her calculated risk had paid off, but now the consequences were immediate. She was no longer fighting a corporation, she was fighting the man behind it. She had forced Thorne to expose his hand.

My fiancee, Ruby Gordon, is the richest person in Glenridge. Yet on day one, she demands we split everything 50-50. "It's the only way I'll know you actually love me and aren't just after my money," she says. I really do love her, so I agree. Five years pass like this. We split the cost of the leather shoes she buys me. We split the pre-marital health checkup. We even split our 5000-dollar rent. Then, one week before our wedding, Mom ends up in the hospital after a car crash. Two bills hit my phone at the same time. One is a 12,000-dollar surgery fee for Mom. The other is my 1,000-dollar share for the wedding suit. Looking at my bank balance, which contains less than 1,000 dollar

[ DAVE’S POV ] After Lydia slammed the front door and left, her harsh words kept echoing inside my head, tearing my soul apart. “She bled right in front of the gynecologist department... The fault is completely yours for not seeing what was right there under your nose!” I collapsed against the wall, my legs shaking so badly I could barely stand. I truly didn't know. I was so completely blinded by Lydia’s lies that I couldn’t even help my own wife when she was bleeding right there in front of the gynecologist office. I didn't even know that was the reason she was bleeding in the first place. I had been so blind, so foolish, and now my wife was gone with my unborn baby.

“Reckoning.” But the word felt hollow now. Reckoning implied a clean exchange—a debt paid - a score settled. What was happening to her was not clean. It was a slow, seismic drowning in a man’s protection, in his touch, in the terrifying possibility that the ledger was a lie. The final, traitorous tremor in her hands wasn’t from fear of Rafe or Mother. It was the tremor of a foundation cracking. The shelter, it seemed, was also the fault line.”

Matt scoffed, “Don't act like you didn't see this coming all along” Enzo snickered, chugging the contents of the bottle down in one gulp. He walked back to the couch Jake lay and shook his head softly, “This brain of yours man” Jake blinked hard. “I have submitted the hard drive to the Media and Ray's secretary” Matt paused, reaching for the bottle in Enzo's hands. “Very soon, everyone would know how greedy Ray is,” he continued. Enzo clapped into the air, his ears turning red from his grin. “I get to win the prize from Ricky's gang and I also get compensated for Ray's public shame,” he exhaled loudly. “Life's good man.”

________________ Flashes cut through the dark — the memory of her scream when the monitors flatlined, the way her hand twitched against his in the ambulance, the fire in her eyes the last time he saw her conscious. And now something new. Hot. Violent. He felt it inside him, echoing like a heartbeat that wasn’t his. Rage. Resolve. The strike of steel into flesh. Her fire bleeding into his own darkness, refusing to let him drift. She had killed for him. The realization tore him awake inside, even if his body still refused to move. ________________ “Vitals climbing!” a voice shouted far away. “Pressure stabilizing—” Rhett groaned, the sound raw, his throat scraping against the mask. His eyes cr

a voice on the other end asked. “As planned,” she said coldly. “Good. Keep it up,” the voice replied before hanging up. Angelique’s lips curled into a faint smile as she stared once more at the board. “Game on,” she whispered. “Patience is the quality of every soul seeking revenge. This is just the beginning of your downfall.” She said fixing the picture.

While the two voiced out their hatred for Aurora Eli chose to stay mute. 'Spill their blood for accusing her. Murder them. We'll get better warriors.' Reckon snarled. He wasn't making this easy as he filled my head with thoughts of murder. I needed to get out of here before I paint the walls with the blood of my Beta and my two Gammas. I could feel my canines extend as Reckon forces me to accept that I wanted to wash my hands with their blood. Noticing my mood, all shifted on their feet nervously and neither spoke.

He was inclined towards the second contract we lost this month. “It was Reile I dreamed of. She left and gave me this replacement.” I had to take it out; how long am I going to keep it inside? Everything was going down, and there was no hope for my redemption. I am losing my baby. I suffered losses in my business, and more than that, betrayed. She comes like an omen in my life. Miles patted my hand, and my eyes kept staring at the rim of the glass. “Ruben…”

He chirped before parting away into the darkness. Now that I was all to myself, I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared. I was going to jump between two cliffs of relatively large distance apart. The cold winds blew across my messy long air, dangling my strands across my face. I could hear the river streaming between this cliffs, I could also hear Greenville's screams of excitement. How could they be happy despite the injustice bestowed upon them. First, their Alpha was killed unjustly. Secondly, that Alpha was replaced by Alpha Jason. A man filled with so much evil. How could they be celebrating?