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Author: H.A AlKhatib
last update Last Updated: 2022-07-27 23:20:29

Cressida

Oh my beautiful children, I love you so much but I will always wish that you were never even born.

"No!" I woke up, gasping and sweating. It was the same dream I was having for the last two days… ever since Dad went to prison and ever since I accidentally found that book.

I looked at the nightstand beside me where I last placed the book… that damned book.

'Two days ago'

Why Did they send me to get something from Dad's office when I hadn't entered it for years.

I kept on searching for the papers Jack asked me to find but there was a specific drawer that felt weird… too weird.

I took the ruler that Dad always kept in the office and placed it on the side of the floor of the drawer and pushed a little… bingo! I was right, there was another layer beneath it and there was a book with only a few French words written on the red leather cover.

L'histoire d'une femme morte.

Which in English meant : The story of a dead woman.

Dad was never one to read books so why would he keep a boo
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    Cressida Getting ready for this party was sooo damn exhausting and what was even more tiring was decorating the house, getting drinks, food, waitresses and waiters, all in one day.I was currently wearing a navy blue dress that had a long slit, showing off my legs. My hair was pulled up in a wavy ponytail while having it braided on the top as well.I usually wear Mom's necklace even if it never matched the dress but this time my hand hovered over the necklace as I remembered her words in the book and the small fragments that I dreamed of as well… I didn't think I wanted to put it on… not today.So I simply picked one of the other necklaces I had then headed downstairs, my heels clicking on the stairs as I listened to the calm and classy music that was playing but while looking around, I noticed Noah and his face… was bruised. Maybe not that much but still noticeable so I quickly ran to him and placed my hands on his face, making him look at me."What happened to you?" I gasped and di

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    SavaşThere was no going back for me now. Not after I got a taste of an island full of guilty pleasure, simply by having Cressida come because of my fingers only.Everything about her screamed sin even though no one else could understand it. No one could understand how hard I became upon looking at her innocent blue eyes, the same eyes she wanted to make everyone else believe that they were harsh and unfeeling.No one noticed how she played with the hem of her shirt whenever she was nervous or how she bit her lip every single time she lied. No one in this whole goddamn world knew her buttons and how to push them the way I did and I'm only getting started… Soon I'll be the only one she could trust. She would soon lose trust in her father, her aunts and maybe even Jack but I swear in my life that I'm doing this for the better good. The bathroom door opened and I half expected it to be Cressida, looking for more answers but instead it was her look alike. Jack."Stay the fuck away from

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    Cressida "I'll go try these on okay?" Noah said and left to the changing room without waiting for my answer and I knew that he was going to take a long time there as usual so I took my chance to distract myself from both Savaş and Jack the same way I've been doing for the last five days… by reading the book my mother wrote about her life.Maybe I would discover something about myself that way even though I still knew that my answers would always be owned by Savaş… Chapter two:Ma deuxième mortTwo Lines. Pregnant. I was Pregnant with Isaac's children. I just lost my only chance of freedom because of this child.My hand clutched my stomach where a small human was growing and I wished if it wasn't, I'll always wish it wasn't. The problem wasn't Isaac, he treated me like I was a queen from day one and till this day. The problem also wasn't the small child I was having… The problem was… me.It always was me…"Chantal?" I heard Isaac call my name, make brace myself and wipe out the tea

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    Cressida I Let my gaze go around the basement through my dark locks while keeping my head down. It was meant to scare any kid who stepped inside it, low light, long stairs, creepy vibes. But it didn't scare me, not one bit but it sure did my twin who was trembling in fear, his low voice shaking as he called out for me. "Cressida?" It would've been better if someone stabbed me with a knife in my heart compared to hearing how afraid Jack was. It wasn't fair.I looked beside me and saw Jack shaking but I could tell it wasn't just from fear so I quickly removed my jacket, staying in my black t-shirt as I draped it over Jack's shoulders before I took his cold face in both my hands.Tears ran down his face as he whispered, as if he was afraid that they would hear him even though they weren't here. "I'm scared." I wiped away his tears even though they kept reforming, then said in the strongest tone I could give."You don't have to be afraid. I'll always protect you, no matter what." Jack

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    Cressida I've been awake for maybe three hours. While the three horsemen had been on my side the whole time, almost as if they're guarding me, bringing all the food and water to the room but the one person I wanted to see was nowhere to be seen. I needed to see him for two reasons. One, he owed me six sentences now after wrenching six orgasms out of me yesterday. Two, because I… wanted to see him. I never imagined that I'll miss seeing him and I'm afraid that he changed his point of view about me because I fainted but that thought left as soon as it came because I knew Savaş wouldn't think about me like that… or at least I hoped."So… when are you going to let me leave the room or am I a double prisoner now?" I asked Jesper who's eyes widened before he sighed and looked at me with concern and worry which did make me happy because I saw that by now I can rely on the horsemen to be by my side but I didn't want to be babysitted too."Well technically… you were supposed to be down the

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    TW: Organ Trade.Cressida It felt like I was back there, back to those times where I had to be the strongest, where I had to pretend that I wasn't scared shit less of those gaurds.Back to a time where an eight years old had to tell her twin brother that she'll protect him when she knew damn well that if it came down it, she would try to protect him and probably die doing so but that wouldn't have meant she would be the one who saved… if he got saved at all.To look into that man's eyes opened back a part of my memories that I just now realised… I had closed. I did it. I chose to forget rather than facing my fears but what else would eight years old me would have done? No matter how many tough act one can play, there would always be a moment where your heart would be beating so loudly and intensely that you can feel it in your ears, your brain going into overdrive, a part of it wishing to just doze off until the danger is gone, another part only longing for the truth but all of tha

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    DanteThrough my entire life, I made lots of mistakes and formed way too many enemies but it never crossed my mind that it would affect my only child and wife but it did.My mistakes came back to haunt me the moment Deniz died while trying to protect Savaş -our son- knowing damn well that it would cost her life but she was always that way… it was what made me love her in the first place, her selfless and loving nature had me captured the moment I met her.She and I both knew I wasn't a decent man yet she still let me into her life until I managed to have her love me and there were moments in my life where I thought that I was way too cruel to have her by my side, too cruel for her pure heart but the moment Savaş was born and I saw her holding him and staring him down with unconditional love.The moment she looked away from him and her gaze settled on me, full of love, passion and trust… I just knew it would be impossible for me to let her go but life was never fair to me… ever.One bu

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  • By Ruthlessness I Rule    30

    CressidaI was about to leave the nightclub while Savaş was supposed to catch up with me but something didn't feel right, I knew it.While I was trying to shake off that feeling someone pulled me from behind by the waist and before I could scream a hand that was holding a piece of cloth was placed on my mouth and nose.Fear filled my veins as I tried to reach for my gun but someone else came up from the shadows and took it away and only now did I notice the smell of chemicals filling my nose, forcing me to drift out of consciousness until everything turned black.************************When I woke up again I found myself in a basement… that basement. The same one where I was locked with Jack in, the one I met Savaş in.Lifting myself off the ground I looked around me until my eyes stopped at the figure of someone… Savaş.I got up quickly, rushing to his side before I fell down on my knees beside him, my hands cradling his face while shaking him gently.I called out his name. "Savaş?

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    Cressida "Why should I wear a wig?" I asked, frustration filling my voice because the damn wig just couldn't be placed on my head like I wanted."One, we can't let The Raven's Caw know that you know about them. Two, since your majesty doesn't want to run into Savaş then we have to disguise you." Talia answered while applying on her eyeliner.I didn't know who to ask about the whole Raven's Caw thingy but apparently she knew because her father was in the meeting too but I didn't notice him so she told me some stuff but not everything so we still have to go some sort of underground club that the Raven's Caw own, where fights happen so that we can spy around.But the problem was that the horsemen hung around there a lot and might as well be there tonight so I told her that the last thing I want is running into Savaş there and that is why I'm suffering with a blonde wig now.Once I finally had the wig on, we headed to the club where a bouncer was seated but he got up when he saw Talia be

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