Chapter Seventy-Two

Brooklyn stared at him, shocked by his speech. Nikolas gazed at her for a second waiting for a reply. When she didn’t utter a single word, he walked out of the house. Brooklyn blinked and sat down to eat, with Nikolas’s words ringing inside her head. 

You can’t escape me in this life, Brooklyn. I’ll chase you forever till you completely surrender to me

No, she wouldn’t escape him again. No one cared for them as much as he did. Although he had a strange way of showing his love for them, he did love them, maybe more than she loved him. 

She relished the delicious sausage and egg sandwiches and fruit salad that he had made for her, all the time staring at him as he stood on the porch and talked on his phone. She noted that he had reduced a lot in the last nine months, his hair ha