Chapter 3Â
Chapter 3Â
Ryan’s face stiffened.Â
“Didn’t you just say those things were tacky?”Â
“Well, I want them now! Won’t you get them for me? The baby and I will be so upset, and when he’s born I’ll tell him his daddy was a cheapskate!”Â
My breath caught as I stared at her still-flat stomach.Â
Ha. No wonder this woman had the balls to come after me. She was carrying his child.Â
Hearing my demands, Ryan’s expression turned cold.Â
“Hannah, I promised these to Ashley. If you want them, I’ll find similar pieces later.”Â
“You know what those things mean to me!”Â
Eight years ago, the family was massacred by our enemies, and these items went missing.Â
I killed over a hundred of their men, but out of spite, their leader refused to reveal where he’d hidden them.Â
Eventually, Ryan spent a month torturing the truth out of them for me.Â
Ryan’s voice was tight with suppressed anger.Â
“They’re just dead people’s belongings. Do you really need to obsess over them like this?”Â
“I told you, I’ll make it up to you later. This time Ashley gets them. It’s what you owe her.”Â
Ashley stepped forward with a smile.Â
“Exactly, Hannah. Your parents are dead anyway. Keeping their stuff around just makes you sadder, right?”Â
“Do you think maybe they died so horribly because of all the terrible things you’ve done? Like karma?”Â
“I heard they were dismembered and sewn into dolls. I was so shocked when I first heard about it!”Â
Her words pierced straight through my heart, tearing me apart.Â
I slammed her face down on the table, pulling the knife from my thigh and pressing it against her wrist.Â
“You talk too fucking much.”Â
“What do you want more, those trinkets or your hand?”Â
Ryan shot to his feet, kicking the knife away.Â
I drew my gun instead, pressing it against Ashley’s belly.Â
“Hannah! Let her go!”Â
“Ashley’s just telling the truth. You’ve killed so many people, can’t handle hearing facts?”Â
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My Uterne for Wie pitch? Fine 1 Cradled Their UeixÂ
املا ملممÂ
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If your parents hadn’t pissed off so many people, would they have died so brutally? Look at yourself now. I barely recognize you!”Â
The gum trembled in my hand, nearly misfiringÂ
My whole body shook uncontrollably.Â
He knew damn well why my parents died.Â
Those vengeful enemies had come for him.Â
They kidnapped all three of us and forced me to choose.Â
Pick my parents, and he dies.Â
Pick him, and my parents don’t make it out alive.Â
Before they died, my parents looked at me and said they were old and couldn’t protect me anymore.Â
Ryan would have to take control of the Cooper legacy from here on out.Â
They weren’t murdered. They killed themselves so I wouldn’t have to make that impossible choice.Â
After their deaths, the enemies released Ryan but took my parents’ bodies.Â
When I finally tracked them down for revenge, they’d vanished, leaving behind only two rotting bodies.Â
I dug their grave with my bare hands, my fingertips torn and bloody.Â
However long I dug, Ryan knelt beside me for just as long.Â
He split his forehead open prostrating himself at their grave, swearing he’d protect me with his life.Â
That night, he carved my name into his chest with a knife.Â
“Hannah is my heart. From now on, where I go, you go.”Â
“You are my life.”Â
1 ground my cigarette into Ashley’s neck, my smile turning vicious.Â
Then I slowly released my hold on her.Â
“You’re right. They wouldn’t want me to be like this.”Â
Ashley threw herself into Ryan’s arms, sobbingÂ
She’s fucking psycholÂ
Ryan just stared at me intently.Â
When I reached into my pocket, he immediately tensed.Â
But when he saw me pull out a men’s ring, he finally relaxed.Â
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My Ilterus for His Bitch? Fine. 1 Cradled Their Heir….. in a Beast’s Maw!Â
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“This is a gift I prepared for you. Let me put it on you myself, okay?”Â
Ryan let go of Ashley and walked over to me, obediently extending his hand.Â
The next second, his ring finger was severed by my blade, hitting the floor.Â
I laughed wildly.Â
“Ryan, this is part of what you owe me!”Â
“I’m going to collect it back piece by piece!”Â
I toyed with the knife as I moved closer to Ashley.Â