“Wake up!”I groan, but I don’t open my eyes. The voice sounded so far away and I thought that I was dreaming because how else would the voice sound so familiar?“Ava, wake the fuck up!”This time I open my eyes. The voice sounded too real to be a dream. Also, why the hell would I dream of her?My v
“And you don’t have to open your mouth and talk. Can you just shut the fuck up?”I continue to struggle on my chair. Hoping to loosen the ropes. There was no way I was going to stay here with her the entire time. Something ugly was bound to happen between us.“There is nothing like a good cat fight
Rowan. “Are you going to brood forever?” Gabe asks in annoyance. I don’t pay him any attention. Just continue staring at the amber liquid in my glass, contemplating how things went downhill with Ava so fast. I’m not naïve enough to think that she was acting irrationally. She was acting like a nor
The only reason our company was still standing was because we were as powerful as the Howell's. Their pulling out and getting their loyal investors to do the same hadn’t affected us that much. I wasn’t foolish enough to think it would end there. They may not have been able to destroy our company, b
“You can’t be serious” Emma asks as shell shocked as I was. I felt my heart beating wildly. Panic fisted my chest, making it hard for me to breathe. If I had thought that Ronny or Reaper, whatever the fuck he goes by, kidnapping us was bad, I was wrong because what he planned was way worse. “Oh, I
“I can’t believe you just said that about daddy!” “Lucky for me because I don’t really give a fuck what you think” I snap. Can’t she just keep quiet and let me concentrate? With each moment that passes that I am not free, my anxiety rises even more. She glares at me, but keeps quiet. I heave a br
I get out and survey the place. We were in a junk yard. I smile at our luck. This meant there were a lot of places to hide from Reaper and his men. “We have to find the exit. From there, I believe things will be easy” I tell Emma as we start moving. She nods her head in agreement and walks beside
“Fuck, it hurts” Emma screams in agony, making me come out of my shock just in time to see the man raise his pistol. I scramble to take the gun that I had dropped and immediately fire. He drops to the ground. I get up and rush to Emma, who was writhing on the ground. I don’t even check if the man