NICK“I am not sure why you are making such a noise when you said I didn’t have the stomach for something like this.” I was busy skinning him using a scalpel as if I were skinning an animal. To me, he was an animal.“Didn’t you mock me about it a few days ago?” I asked wiping the blood off the scalp
OLIVIAI hoped Nick would come home early today. He hadn’t been around much since he started working with my best friend, Sandra. Things had been hectic at the office, but I still hoped today would be different, seeing how it was our fourth-year anniversary. I also had big news; I was finally pregna
OLIVIATwo Days Later“Lock her up, and don’t let her see the sun ever again. She doesn’t deserve it!” Nick barked at the New Village Town police. His eyes were cold as ice, filled with hatred. The officer roughly shoved me into the filthy, smelly cell before slamming the bars shut. I turned to loo
OLIVIAAs I stood in the cell, my thoughts went to my grandma. What would happen to her now that I was locked up? My chest tightened as I thought of her and her fragile health. Hearing about my arrest might kill her.Nick turned to the officer. “She’s to have no visitors and isn’t allowed outside. L
OLIVIAI sat in the dark jail cell, thinking about my baby and how he was going to survive in a place like this. I didn’t care about myself—they could keep me there for as long as they wanted—but my baby didn’t deserve this. He didn’t deserve to be born in a jail or suffer for my sins.It was only t
OLIVIANINE MONTHS LATERPrison had been hard, not just because I was pregnant but because of how I was treated. But I was grateful for one thing—Ethan kept his word. The guard he’d bribed continued to bring me vitamins and took care of me as promised.But when he wasn’t around, the others would con
NICKTwo years have passed since that woman humiliated me, since I found out she stole millions from me. How could I have been so stupid and blind? When Sandra told me that Olivia had a hand in what happened to my mother all those years ago—how they met, how Olivia “just happened” to save her from
NICKMy parents left and Sandra came out from the kitchen. She was crying and I didn’t like it. I didn’t know why my parents would be so cruel to her, she was not the one who did all those things to me. she was the one who saved me from a bad situation and showed me the kind of wife I had.I didn’t
NICK“I am not sure why you are making such a noise when you said I didn’t have the stomach for something like this.” I was busy skinning him using a scalpel as if I were skinning an animal. To me, he was an animal.“Didn’t you mock me about it a few days ago?” I asked wiping the blood off the scalp
“Olivia!”I jumped slightly, startled out of my thoughts. My gaze snapped up, and there stood Marcus, his face lined with concern. He had been calling my name, but I hadn’t heard him. “What are you thinking?” he asked, his voice softer now but tinged with worry.I didn’t know how to respond. The wor
OLIVIAI sat in Samuel's room, my heart heavy with worry, torn between the fear for my son and the concern for my husband. The silence in the room was suffocating, the air thick with tension and uncertainty. My thoughts were consumed with what I had overheard during Marcus’s phone call with my fathe
LUKEI knew the pain, the anger, the frustration Nick was feeling all too well. It was a pain that echoed deep within me, a shadow I had carried for years. I had felt the same fury when I discovered that my father had sent people to torture Olivia while she was locked away in that hellhole of a pris
LUKEFrom the moment Nick grabbed the toolbox, something felt off. I couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right about it, or about him. The way he handled it, the way he avoided making eye contact with me, it was all too strange. His behaviour was erratic, and I knew he was hiding someth
NICKI thought I could wait. I thought I could keep my anger in check, let my thirst for revenge simmer beneath the surface until we found all of Xander's men. But that phone call with Olivia had shattered whatever thin restraint I had managed to hold onto. How was I supposed to stay composed, to fe
I wanted to believe him. I wanted to believe that this nightmare would end soon, that my family would be safe again. And in that moment, I allowed myself to hope for just a second. Because if I didn’t have hope, what did I have left?I glanced over at Samuel, curled up on the couch, his small body t
OLIVIAI couldn’t stand what was happening. My son, poor Samuel, was trying to sleep, but every time he would drift off, his small body would tense, and then he would wake up crying, his little chest heaving with fear. He was traumatized.I could see it in his eyes. He hadn’t done anything to deserv
NICKWhen I heard the news of the shootout at the house, my insides ran cold. I rushed out of the room and headed to where we kept Xander. I didn’t ask question when I got there. I woke him up with a kick on the ribs. He groaned in pained and his eyes flew open. Then I gave him a rain of punches unt