hapter 0185
There is a flicker of an emotion in his eyes. It’s gone before I can even interpret what the hell it is.
“I don’t hurt kids. That’s one thing we agree on in my organization.”
I’m surprised by this, but manage to hide it. It doesn’t matter either way. Fact is he wanted to use me
against Rowan,
“What are you doing here and what do you want from me?” I ask instead.
“Put the knife down” he commands.
“No way in hell. I’m not stupid. If you want to talk, then talk, but the knife stays where it is”
“Feisty, I like that”
That is definitely not something you want to hear from someone like Reaper. He seems unhinged in a
really dangerous and scary way.
“What do you want Reaper?” I ask again.
Fuck! If only I hadn’t left my damn phone in the fucking living room. Maybe then I could have stealthily
sent a message to Rowan.
1 got a message from your boyfriend” he says with a smirk.
I look at him confused. What the hell was he talking about?
“What boyfriend? I don’t have a fucking boyfriend”
“Ethan, does that name ring a bell then?”
My body stills. What the hell had Ethan done? Did he even realize what he was up against? The police
have been unable to catch this guy for years. That means he’s really good and really powerful in the
criminal world
“You see, he sent someone to find me and kill me. You know, take care of the problem for his baby mama.
What he didn’t realize is that I’m king of the underworld in this city and you can’t order a hit on the same. man that owns these gangsters”
I’m not even surprised he knows so much about me
Shit. Shit. Please don’t tell me that Ethan too has made and enemy out of Ronny. I didn’t go to all the trouble of facing the man that betrayed me just so he ends up dead and doesn’t get to meet his baby.
can’t blame him though” he continues. “He doesn’t realize I would never have hurt you.”
“W–what?” I stammer.
He just goes on like I didn’t speak. It was like I wasn’t even in the room and he was speaking to himself.
“Sure I wanted to play with Rowan. I already knew he would choose you meaning I would have killed Emma, but even if he had chosen Emma, I wouldn’t have killed you”
I just stare at him. Not really sure what the hell he was talking about. Nothing about what he said was registering in my freaking head.
“What the hell are you talking about? Rowan would have chosen Emma. You were gambling my
life
“No he wouldn’t. Maybe before, but not now. I’ve been watching him. Studying him. I know for a fact that he’d have let Emma die if it meant saving you. Looks like his feelings have changed. Or maybe they were
always there. It took losing you to open his damn eyes
I was rendered speechless. Sure Rowan had told me he’d have chosen me. I didn’t listen. Now, hearing. someone else say the same thing. An enemy to be exact. Has me even more confused when it comes to
all things Rowan.
I shake my head. Just to clear the cobwebs.
I stare at the menacing man in front of me. He looks so relaxed. So unbothered, Which leaves me
dumbfounded, because if I were him, I would be nervous knowing I could get caught any time.
“You said you wouldn’t have hurt us. Then what was the point of kidnapping us?”
“I said I wouldn’t have hurt you.” He emphasizes on “You“. “Emma was fair game”
This man was so damn confusing. Nothing he said made a damn sense.
“Aren’t you going to ask me why?”
I sigh, praying for patience, the patience I was starting to lose. I just wanted him out of my damn house.
“Why?”
He smiles. This was the first smile I’ve seen from him that wasn’t creepy or evil.
“Because you’re carrying my niece or nephew. With that fact, I can’t hurt now can I?”
Synopsis
Ava: Nine years ago I did something terrible. it wasn’t one of my best moments but I saw an opportunity to have the guy I’ve loved since I was a young girl and I took it. Fast forward to years later and I’m tired of living in a loveless marriage. I want to free both of us from a marriage that should never have taken place. They say if you love something…. It was time to let him go. I know he’ll never love me and that I’ll never be his choice. His heart will always belong to Her and despite my sins, I deserve to be loved. Rowan: Nine years ago, I was so in love I could barely see right. I ruined it when I made the worst mistake of my life and in the process I lost the love of my life. I knew I had to step up in my responsibility and so I did, with an unwanted wife. With the wrong woman. Now she has once again flipped my life by divorcing me. To make matters even more complicated, the love of my life is back in town. Now the only question is, who is the right woman? Is it the girl I fell head over heels in love with years ago? or is it my ex wife, the woman I never wanted but had to marry?
