Lahat ng Kabanata ng He Chose His Step Mother, I Chose His Uncle: Kabanata 181 - Kabanata 190

The wood of the bedroom door is cold against my forehead as I lean into it, my knuckles raw from two days of desperate knocking. It’s been forty-eight hours since I dragged Sydney back here—forty-eight hours since she locked herself in and effectively vanished from the world. She hasn't left the r

The water is the only thing that doesn’t feel like it’s judging me right now. After Nicholas left, I couldn’t stand the silence of the house, so I headed straight for the pool. I need the physical burn of the laps to drown out the mental noise of everything he said. I dive in, the cold shock of the

"Are you blaming Sydney for your mother's death, Owen?" The weight of his question hits me like a bucket of ice water. I freeze, the reality of what I just muttered sinking in. What is wrong with me? How could I even think that, let alone say it out loud? The guilt, heavy and suffocating, slams i

The burly detective, the one who looks like he eats gravel for breakfast, leans forward until his face is way too close to mine. "Look, Ms. Sterling, or whatever name you're going by today, we've been doing our homework on the late matriarch of the Newton family. And one very consistent thread we ke

"Grabbing my client—and the woman living in this house—like a common criminal is a lot more than just 'asking questions,' Officer," he spits out, his voice dripping with contempt. "From where I was standing, it looked an awful lot like blatant harassment and physical assault." "Now, wait a minute,