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Chapter 0243
I feel as my anger starts rising to the surface. I know what Brian said, but I still haven’t ruled out Reaper
from my list of suspects.
I mean, come the fuck on, he had Ava kidnapped. You just don’t do that unless you have an ulterior mative. Plus, what Brian says just doesn’t make sense. Why would he kidnap her and then force me to
make a decision if he really didn’t want her to get hurt?
“What the fuck are you doing here?” I snarl at him.
His eyes sweep over me to the rest. They’ve all stood up in guard, but that doesn’t seem to faze him at all.
One thing that makes Reaper really dangerous is the fact that he was maniac. Sure, I am cold, but Reaper takes that to a whole new level. He is a sociopath and a psychopath, all wrapped in a pretty ugly and deadly bow.
“I’m here to see, Ava. Why else do you think I would be here? To see your sorry ass?” he asks with a
devious smirk.
I grind my teeth, willing myself not to start a fight in a fucking hospital. It would be the sure way kicked out, and I couldn’t have that.
“And you honestly think we believe that? Gabe asks him. “You kidnapped her a few months ago.”
to get
He turns those deadly eyes towards my brother. I’m not easily fazed, but Reapers eyes radiate a kind of coldness that had you feeling chills down your spine.
His eyes were dead and cold. Almost like the man didn’t have a fucking soul. Maybe he didn’t. Who the fuck knows anyway?
“I personally don’t care what the fuck you think because I am not here for any of you.” he doesn’t lose his composure at all. “Now are you going to tell me how she is or should I find her doctor myself?”
His condescending tone, not to mention his attitude was grating on my nerves. I don’t even understand what he is doing here in the first place.
“Why would we tell you that? For all we know, you’re the bastard that put a hit on her” I tell him through clenched
He stares at me with wide eyes, before throwing his head back and laughing. It rings off the walls of the waiting room, leaving goosebumps all over my skin.
He suddenly stops and his gaze fixes on me.
“Trust me, if I wanted Ava dead, she’d be dead” he says in that same icy tone.
“Then if you’re not the one responsible, then why are you here? I don’t really see how her health is any of
your concern” Nora speaks.
His gaze leaves mine before it sweeps over the rest. They finally rest on someone behind me. I slowly turn to check who he was looking at. It’s Corrine.
He lingers there for a while. He looks enraptured while Corrine looked like she couldn’t keep her eyes of him. He finally pulls his gaze away with what I am damn sure is great difficulty.
Interesting.
He focuses on Nora. “Well she’s carrying my niece, of course I will be concerned about her”
He delivers the line smoothly, but leaves us shocked.
The man must be delusional or something. There is no way I just heard him right. How the fuck could he
be the baby’s uncle. I don’t think he is related to Ava in anyway. Unless he’s a long lost brother of hers.
“Th–that’s impossible” Letty stammers.
By Nora and Theo’s reaction, Reaper couldn’t be their son, so if he was telling the truth then he is related.
to the baby some other way.
I study him and that’s when it clicks.
“You’re Ethan’s brother” I announce as the similarities ring in my head.
“Bingo”
“But how?” Nora whispers. “When we adopted Ethan we were told that he had no family left”
“I was in juvie then, word got back to me from one of my father’s men that Ethan was in foster care. I told them to mess with his records so that it seemed like our dad was the only family he had.” He pauses. Like I told Ava, I wanted him to have a chance at a normal life. So that’s what I gave him. I didn’t want him to turn out a criminal”
“And yet he still ended up in prison,” I tell him sarcastically.
He laughs, but this time it isn’t chilly. It’s sort of warm. If you can even call it that.
“Ava said the same damn thing”
We are quiet for a while until Theo speaks.
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?
