Justin POV"I'll owe you one more," I tell Luke as he parks the car in front of Chris's house."Go get your girl already."That's right. I can't let Jade be in any more danger; she's just a victim. Luke had some contacts with the house security, and we got all the info about when Chris comes and goes. He wouldn't be back for hours.I got out of the car and managed to enter the house without any problems. It was creepy. It looked like a sick person's house, or rather, it was a sick person's house."Justin?" It wasn't Jade's voice, but it was a very familiar voice. It had been a long time since I heard it.I turned towards a hallway where the voice had come from. "Caitlin.""My God! What are you doing here?" she asks, pulling me into a room; I realized later it was a bathroom. "Ethan is homeless."What does she mean? Why is she helping me?"Where's Jade?" was the only thing I could manage to ask."She's upstairs...""Great! I'll go get her." She grabs me."She's up there with Ethan," sh
pov justin.After we finished eating, I went to sort out some things with Cassie in the kitchen and ended up laughing at one or two jokes she told me. But nothing cheered me up much. Remembering Ethan with Jade destroyed everything inside me. "Looks like the ice cream effect doesn't last long," the waitress appears in front of me. It took me a few seconds to reason and remember. I chuckled weakly. "Oh, but thank you very much for the tip anyway...""Ellen.""Well, you already know my name," we laughed, "Nice to meet you, Ellen.""Next time bring your wife, I bet she'll love it just like your son did."I couldn't reply anything else, just smiled at her and called David to go home.Two months later.**pov josh "I'm so sleepy," Anne grumbles once again, leaning her head on my shoulder. "Why did we come so early?" "Early, Anne? It's almost eleven," I grumble, shaking her to wake her up. "I'm tired of this. Being pregnant is sad." "As your mother says..." "Miss Anne Sullivan?" the
Tyler POV"What if we put me out in the field?" Luke suggests. "They'll trust me." "They'll want to kill you; everyone already knows you're working with me." "How many shipments did we lose last month, Justin?" I ask. "Twelve. A loss of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars." "I have to sort this out soon." "Rachel told me that at Ethan's club, when she still worked there, she heard about some girls who were being held against their will, like, being threatened," Luke says seriously. "That's bad, obviously, but how does that help us?"- "Most of them were Latina; you know what that means? They're tricked, and when they get here, they're forced into prostitution.""I didn't know that kind of business was so prevalent," Justin says, looking somewhat surprised. "Yeah, and you know what? These traffickers are the worst people in the world, but when it comes to innocent girls, they follow rules, like how they follow loyalty rules." "So all we need to do is take down Ethan's busin
Emily POVI was so happy about what I had just found out, yet insecure. But I was radiant. I wanted to tell Tyler right away. I went down the stairs to meet him, but as I reached the living room, he was leaving. I glanced at the clock, and it was eleven o'clock at night. Where could he be going at this hour? I couldn't help but worry; there are many people wanting him dead. I decided to follow him.Not that I was suspicious of my husband, but I honestly don't want to raise two children alone. That's what I wanted to tell him. I waited a whole month to be sure, and now all I had to do was take good care of myself. I confess I envied Anne. She will have a peaceful and stable pregnancy, while I will probably have a turbulent and dangerous one, but it will be worth it. Who knows, maybe a boy will come, and he can fulfill Tyler's dream of having a little boy?I almost lost sight of his car three times, but I managed to keep up with him. He had stopped in front of a nature reserve, with a l
Justin's POV"Come on, Uncle, please!" Olivia insists once again on going to Beth's house to see Josh.Tyler asked me to take her out of the house for a while to stop her from asking for her mother. I did what he asked. I don't agree with it at all, but I know he won't hurt her. Tyler isn't stupid enough to do that. Well, actually, he is, if he went to meet Caitlin, but he wouldn't lay a finger on Emily, not again."Uncle!" This time it was David; he pretends like none of that father story was true. He keeps calling me "Uncle," and I don't blame him. I'm not used to it either."Alright," I say; the restaurant was already closed anyway. "Cassie, ask one of the security guys to take you home; I'll swing by later to pick them up.""Okay, just a few bills left for you to close," she says, leaving with the two kids."Bye, you ungrateful brats," I say to them, and they laugh.In a matter of seconds, they vanish, and the silence is great. Honestly, these two are very noisy, they never stop,
Emily's POVNearly two days.Tyler must be going crazy. He didn't sleep here; it bothers me a bit not to know where he slept. After all, how did we get to this point again?I've been trying to stay calm this whole time. I can't afford any more stress. The doctor's orders were to rest throughout the entire pregnancy, especially the first five months.He wasn't treating me poorly; on the contrary, he was trying to get closer. Every time he brought food for me, he attempted to approach me. I didn't let him. This time, I won't swallow infidelity easily.I got up from bed feeling a bit heavy-headed, stopped for a few seconds to let my body adjust, and went to the vanity where I kept the vitamins and the tranquilizer. When I was about to take them, Tyler walked into the room and looked at me in astonishment."What's this?" he asks."Medicine.""You're not sick," he comes over to me and takes the pills from me, "What were you thinking of doing with this tranquilizer?""Seriously? Are you ser
Emily's POV:I couldn't think straight when I saw my daughter lying there on the floor covered in blood. For a moment, I think I just froze, which is why I only snapped back to myself when Tyler was already near her, calling her name. I ran to the floor and could see where all that blood was coming from; it was from her left arm. I tried to keep as calm as possible; no one taught me how to help my own daughter, how to think clearly. The blood was spraying like a broken pipe gushing water."Olivia?" I called her. She was somewhat unconscious but still awake.I looked at the arm more closely; the bullet hadn't entered, it wasn't there, but it had caused enormous damage."Mom, it hurts," she says with a trembling voice."It's okay, my love, you're strong, remember?"So much blood. I urgently needed to stop that bleeding, but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from, from the arm, of course, but it seemed to be coming from nowhere. I remembered something I learned in one of the earl
Tyler POV"WHERE'S THAT SON OF A BITCH?" I enter Ethan's house shouting with rage. The maid was saying something about calling security, as if there were any left alive."Sir, I need you to leave, or I'll have to call the police.""Call the police?" I laugh. "Great, I bet your boss will be the first to get the silver handcuffs.""What's all this shouting about here?" Caitlin appears, and as soon as she sees me, she freezes. "What are you doing here?""I want to talk to your damn brother.""How rude, you shouldn't call someone who will be your family like that," she says, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear."What are you talking about?""When those two leave your life, Tyler, you and I are going to get married, and then we'll all be a family," Caitlin says with a convinced look, completely out of the ordinary."You're crazy. I would never join with people as dirty as you and your brother.""That's not how it seemed when you kissed me that day.""It's really amazing what alcohol can