I don’t know if it’s already obvious but this chapter is basically a reimagined one which means the last one where it shows Leslie preparing for Kian’s launch and getting kidnapped by Roman and Mike isn’t how the story will progress anymore. This chapter is where the story will continue from. No, this is not an attempt to drag the book again as I assure you that the story will be completed in about 15-20 chapters and she will still meet Roman and Mike again but just not this way. The previous approach was a really cliche and overused one. It doesn’t speak to kind of character I believe Leslie has grown into. I’m not taking a damsel in distress or need to be saved approach for her, hence the rewriting. Trust me, you’ll love this better. Thank you for sticking with me.❤️
LESLIE’S POV Six hours after the two phone calls I made, the car Cole sends to pick me up pulls into the underground garage of Kian’s old company building. It’s late evening and the sun will set in another hour—the very time the launch is supposed to be wrapping up. The driver kills the engine wh
That’s until I literally feel a shift in the air. It’s ominous and the hair on the back of my neck rises like my very own siren for danger. I feel a presence behind me but before I can turn to see what it is about, a body presses into my back. A strong arm comes around my face and a palm drops over
LESLIE’S POVRoman’s car–a black and sketchy Cadillac Escalade with tinted windows–is parked in the same underground garage that I was in mere minutes ago. He must have been waiting there for me. It’s a big car, hard to miss amidst the dozens of smaller cars parked in the garage but I never paid att
LESLIE'S POVI gape at him, mouth open. He cannot be serious, can he? “Wha…what?” The word leaves me stunted and stuttered as I stare at him. He’s peering down at me and the way he looks at me makes me feel hot in the most ugly ways. He is looking down at me like a prey or a pawn that he just has t
“Nothing damaging to his health but the fake Durable power of attorney wouldn’t exactly be useful if he wasn’t in a coma, would it?” The drug he gave my father must have induced the coma and my father took it to protect me. My fists clench at the thought of what I went through because of him and ev
TRAVIS’ POV I repeatedly tell myself that I shouldn’t be doing it yet I am doing nothing to stop myself from riding my car through a really desolate part of town. The houses here have certainly seen better days but now have walls screaming for either a repaint or an entire reconstruction. The clo
TRAVIS’ POV Her gaze hardens, clearly showing how annoyed she is by the fact I keep blowing off her questions. Then she looks over my shoulders and her beautiful hazel eyes widen. She pushes me aside to get to the wall of photos and picks up the sheets to cover it up. “I saw them already, there’s
KIAN’S POVThis evening has been a rollercoaster and just when I think it’s about to end so I can go back home to my woman’s arms, Cole tells me she is missing and it’s driving me insane. He looks distraught as he returns from looking for her somewhere around the empty company where it’s just the t
CHAPTER 99 ~SOPHIE~ The moment Sebastian disappeared down the street, a crushing silence fell over me, broken only by the unsteady rhythm of my breathing. My fingers twitched at my sides, my entire body locked in place as if moving would make the moment real, as if accepting that he had been
CHAPTER 98 ~SOPHIE~ In between the endless nightmares that were triggered by the events of the past week and waiting for Travis to reach out to me again, I had been pushed to the edge of insanity. I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but it did. It got worse. And now I was bolting out
CHAPTER 97 ~JUSTIN~ I’ve never been anyone’s first choice. Never. No matter how hard I tried, Jac always had the spotlight. He was the golden boy, the prodigy, the one with all the medals and accolades. Meanwhile, I was the kid bringing home crayon sketches and piano recitals that no one car
CHAPTER 96 ~SOPHIE~ There were many questions; like how on earth she was in a place that was at least an hour's drive from her family’s mansion, and why she was chugging down cheap beer when I have only ever seen her enjoy the finest wine. The longer we stood there, wordlessly staring at ea
CHAPTER 95 [ Punching Bag ] ~ELAINE~ (6) The moment I slipped through the gates and caught sight of my father’s car parked neatly in the driveway, dread curled deep in the pit of my stomach. I stopped dead in my tracks, my pulse quickening. They were home. They were never supposed to be hom
CHAPTER 94 [ The One Who Needs Saving ] ~SOPHIE~ I didn’t even blink when the words fell out of Justin’s mouth like he'd been holding them in for years. I just sat there, watching him like he had told me the most obvious thing in the world. If I felt remotely surprised, it was simply because I
CHAPTER 93 [ I’m Gay ] ~SOPHIE~ My scream echoed down the street, loud enough to wake the dead or at least give someone a mild heart attack. But the hand gripping my shoulder was barely even settled before instinct took over. I spun around, grabbing the wrist tightly and twisting it with all the
CHAPTER 92 [ Little Contradictions ] ~SOPHIE~ The faint neon lights from the cinema flickered on and off as I stood by the curb, watching the stream of people moving in and out of the building. I couldn’t remember the last time I watched a movie—couldn’t even remember the last time I did somethi
CHAPTER 91 [ The Man I thought I knew ] ~SOPHIE~ He said no. I never imagined that would be his answer. I sat there, stunned into silence, blinking at him like I hadn't heard him right. His fingers were still wrapped around my wrist, firm and unyielding as if he could anchor me to him by sheer