Chapter: 23. Those familiar eyesEmily lay on her face, taking the whole bed for herself. Even her jaw was killing her to support her face on the pillow for the cut on her forehead. Even a fool knows what is good for him, but Emily. . .she was beyond that. Who rides a bike at that speed after falling from it? Those four paint buckets had weight, but still, she carried them on her back. Could she go to work on Wednesday even? Birds were chirping outside like usual for biscuits. She could hear that, even though the windows were closed and the doors too, she could still smell the burnt bacon, toast, and beans in her kitchen. "Lord, Helen! The pancake batter was in the freezer!" "It's done!" Helen's scream sounded from the other side. "Hold your horses." "Yes! It's done." Her sister hollered. "Don't mind the smell. It's a glitch!" "You heard her." Helen gushed, which made Emily shake her head, snorting. It would be a hell of a job to fix her kitchen, but she could do nothing but accept this silently. At least the gi
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Chapter: 22. I should check on her, shouldn't I?"Adam?" Bash received a call from his friend/business partner, who had been handling the part of the swimming in his club. "Can you tell me if all your associates will be available now? I can wait till their shift is over, but I want them in my office before seven." Standing at the side of the road, Bash talked on his phone and gestured to Julian about how it went at the drugstore, at which Julian shrugged only. Shaking his head, he leaned on the pillar at his side and faced the street where the heiress had fled with her bike. "You are in the city, Sebastian?" Adam sounded surprised. "Julian and I talked last morning, but he didn't tell me about your arrival. Anyway, I can send the six instructors on their shifts now. The session will end in a while, so. . . are you on your way here?" "I arrived last evening." Bash said, "Send your instructors into my office at the end of their shifts. I have some paperwork to finish and checked on the manager and servers about the complaints I am g
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Chapter: 21. Stop following me, sirBash couldn't just believe his eyes. His mouth fell open, and he blinked twice, wanting to confirm if it was. . .her. The girl he had forever seen in a hoodie or man's clothes was now standing in her knee-length brown dress with an overcoat. Her hair, which Bash thought was short, he could tell if she untied her messy bun, it would reach to her waist. She looked a few inches shorter, which was obvious, as she was serving as a male bartender in Sao Paulo, faking it all, but she looked. . .fuller. With her vegetable bag in his hand, Bash took a few steps toward her while thinking about how that teen girl looked more like a woman now with her noticeable changes. It would be wrong to call her a teen girl back when they met. She looked somewhere between a tomboy and a schoolboy then. His eyes accessed her from head to toe, and when he again looked at her face, he found a cut on her forehead and red liquid trickling down from the left side of her face, but she looked oblivious to that! U
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Chapter: 20. They met again. . .Bash sat in his car, staring out the window at an exclusive clubhouse where he could see people queuing in front of that evening. He has owned this place since he moved to this city and brought his business here three years ago, but the headquarters was still in Texas, close to his aunt's home, who goes for his factory visit to check on the workers. Something someone close to his heart used to do for him when he was away on business trips or for his shoots, but now, it was only him and his emptiness. Emptiness? Bash snorted coldly in his mind. He didn't have time for that anymore. He worked like a freak. Even the records he made in his acting career now no one could break them, and his business. . .he would soon buy the entire swimming board in the US. "Where are you heading?" Turning his gaze from his club, Bash asked when Julian returned after answering his call. "Just have some private matter to deal with nearby," Julian said coolly. "Do you want something me to bring for you, s
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Chapter: Present - 19. The New Beginning?(Present) "I love you." Emily whimpered, holding the hands of her best friend Helenite, who had an oversized coat on with a cap on her head. Helenite gritted out in a manly tone and shrugged Emily's hand away from her shoulder. "You don't say that." "Please, don't turn your back on me." Emily bit her inner cheeks while sobbing, but she flinched when suddenly her friend turned toward her. "Then what do you want me to do, Rose?" Holding Emily's shoulders, Helen jerked her with a force that poor Emily saw stars in her vision and tried not to bring that look of horror into her eyes, "Tell me. What should I do to make this pain go away from my heart?" In the backyard of Emily's house on a winter's eve in Seattle, the duo arranged a badminton night to surprise their little sister, but it all went wrong, much to their dismay. From the corner of her eyes, Emily glanced at Cheryl sitting on a chair with popcorn in her lap and instantly looked away, noticing how her sister narrowed her ga
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Chapter: 18. The Cruise night and hazel eyesMeanwhile, Bash's mood worsened by the kind of way she apologized to Catherina. He was about to go after her, but his aunt stopped him. "Please, son, let her be." Catherine intervened. The young couple was close to her heart. "She didn't mean to be rude. You know how things are getting there in her home." "That still doesn't explain the way she talked to you." Bash exhaled harshly, looking into the hallway where his girlfriend had disappeared. Catherine held Bash's arm and made him face her. "You have to understand her side that it isn't easy for her either. She lost but didn't want the same to happen to you in your business and acting career. When you had to stay in Sao Paulo, she went places where you couldn't go to your factories, fundraising events, family gatherings, dealing with your clients, and everything. Please, don't judge her about how she talked to me just now. You should be ashamed of keeping her waiting so long to make her your girlfriend. You met her at sixteen, bu
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Corrupted Knight
Regan
It started the day in senior high, a game of revenge that I was unaware of at that time.
He starts the battle of the unknown me, a girl with a lost memory against him, a handsome bully with his demons.
I thought he would forgive me for what I did to the only person who was everything to him. It wasn't intentional, yet he didn't miss a chance to hurt me where it hurt the most.
I knew that I was the only one to blame here. I believed it was all my fault.
Then I left something that I wished I didn't have.
.
Lincoln
The emotions and forceful resistance I had built around my heart before, now I see them breaking into several pieces.
That's what I thought until it wasn't after that reality was drawn to my mind.
But still, that hole in the heart one can't fix after losing the only family one ever had.
I wanted to change it, to move on with my life.
Those games I have played to push away people who cared for me now tire me shitless.
I even felt awful about hurting that girl more when she was never at fault.
I wasn't even in my right mind to see the effort she put into healing me until. . .it was too late. She left, disappeared like she never existed in my life.
Her action turned me into something that no one had seen coming.
Years later, I ran into her again, who saved me from becoming my worst enemy.
What happened to my sister wasn't her fault, and I no longer want to punish us both for it.
I am letting go of all those grudges.
And I won't let anything stop me from getting what I want.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 2ReganHe ignores me. Pretending he doesn't hear what I ask him. But I still notice how quickly his expression changes as his back stiffens on the chair. As if he is on high alert now. His aunt once called to tell me to stay away from Lincoln because she feared I might take her son's life like I took their daughter's. Does Lincoln also keep the same thought about me? I can't see any other reason for him to sit as this composer. That realization again shows me the place I belong so effortlessly that I feel constricted in my throat."Thanks," I try to sound sarcastic after taking my seat beside him, well, of course, keeping a distance between us. I raise my head and feel a spark when my eyes meet his, who looks away again.My heartbeat increases. My vision gets blurry with tears of grief. Even if I break down before him, he will never understand the reason behind my tears. But we can't avoid this conversation anymore.I spent my entire life alone in the darkness. The coldness is what I k
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Chapter: Chapter 1Lincoln"Don't even think about it!"I draw out my cigarette, gazing at the woman on the floor warningly, who keeps struggling to get rid of that rope tied around her."I am going to ask you for the last time." I glanced at my team and told her, raising my voice, "If you still don't tell me, I have to leave it to them. And trust me, they won't mind having their way of making you speak up!" Sweats on her forehead, that tension line, and those eyes are showing enough. "S...sir, please believe in me. I didn't take him outside that day. They have done so much for me. How could I do this to them?" One can easily make a fool out of himself with that innocent and timid facade a vile woman has on, but if he replays that video footage outside the mayor's mansion, he has to come back to his senses and do everything he can to lessen the pain in a mother's heart who just lost her child."So, you won't tell me." I snicker and step back, making the woman looks at me in horror. "Take care of it."
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Chapter: Prologue IIReganA few months later;"If you are still unwilling to tell me who she is to you, I will make sure you won't ever get out of this place."There is nothing about him I don't know about, but still, his deep-set eyes look unrecognizable now that he looks unfamiliar to me. And I know I am the reason for the monster he turns himself into. I didn't expect to come across something unexpected when I decided to leave him seven years ago. All of them believed they had figured out what happened that day to her, his sister, and that's where they were wrong. Everything I confessed before was just a glimpse of that night. Even after remembering everything, I couldn't share that with anyone. I couldn't, and now, I can't still. Or even in the future. This man before me blames me for that still. The old me would have accepted all the torments without any protest, but today, I won't. I am no longer the girl I used to be. I no longer live in the past. And I have to get out of this place, but I don'
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Chapter: Prologue IRegan Christmas it was, but I saw my daughter pushing the ice ball harder in our garden. She did well and was given the proper shape of the head of her snowman, but she was having a hard time rolling it on the ice to bring it to me- for me to set it on its body. That was how we would celebrate our vacation, the two of us as a family. Strange, but it was okay. At least, to me. But to her, it wasn't. She never complained about it. And I didn't want to think about what she was missing out on when I was angry with her now. I noticed how the light dimmed in her eyes when she heard her other friends' plans for their weekend with their families. I was going to pretend as if I didn't see that or listen to her ask them if they would eat cake and dance with their dad and cousins circling the bonfire in their garden. She liked that one thing. I arranged barbeque, too, after decorating with lights, plastic garlands, and our snowman, but it wasn't enough. And again, I couldn't bring her father o
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Chapter: About The Book"I don't need you to protect me. Your love will be enough for me to fight till my last breath." ~ Regan"My love for you is mercenary. Don't expect something that you will never get from me." ~ Lincoln...Regan Wells (Maria Turgenev)It started the day in senior high, a game of revenge that I was unaware of at that time.He starts the battle of the unknown with me, a girl with a lost memory against him, a handsome bully with his demons.I thought he would forgive me for what I did to the only person who used to be everything to him. It was never intentional, and he was aware of it, yet he didn't miss a chance to hurt me where it hurt the most.He hated me and blamed me for everything that happened in his life.I knew that I was the only one to blame here. I believed it was all my fault.When I couldn't take that anymore, I left him, which I wished I didn't have.But how could I bear to see him with someone who wasn't me?I wasn't sure if I could survive alone, yet I made it for her
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Masuk
