After She She Stopped Loving Him

Charles couldn’t stand the look in her eyes–it was an icy indifference, the kind that comes when disappointment has burned everything else away.

He gently cupped her face and pressed a soft kiss to her lips. “Just give me ten minutes. I’ll track down you and the kidnappers.”

“Mm,” Renee replied, her tone distant and hollow.

She felt numb; all her emotions seemed to have vanished.

The car pulled up to an isolated stretch outside the city. A couple of headlights lit the place up, with only a single road leading in–and now, that road was blocked off by a big truck parked sideways. The kidnappers‘ car sat right behind it.

The truck’s headlights shined bright, lighting up the whole handoff spot.

Renee was being held tight by several kidnappers, her face streaked with tears. When she saw Charles actually show up, her eyes went red with emotion, but her mouth was gagged, so all she could do was let out muffled

cries.

One of the kidnappers pressed a knife to her throat, his eyes full of menace. “Mr. Sinclair, we got a lookout on the road you came in. If you brought anybody else, your sister dies right here–no bluffing. Let’s not play games. Send your wife over, and we’ll hand your sister back.”

Charles was about to speak when the kidnapper suddenly brought the knife down and sliced off one of Renee’s fingers.

“Ahhh! Ahhh!” Renee screamed, her voice echoing with agony.

‘It hurts–it hurts so much I could die!‘ Renee thought, pain and panic flooding her senses.

Yolanda had been on her way, still half–convinced that Renee had staged the whole thing. But seeing how brutal the kidnappers were, she knew she was wrong.

These

guys were definitely after her. But she’d been a housewife for two years and hadn’t pissed anyone off.

‘Maybe it was Vivian’s uncle?‘ Yolanda thought.

But even the Andrade family wouldn’t dare go this far with Renee. If Charles found out, they’d be facing some terrifying revenge.

Charles let her go and gently nudged her forward, his tone gentle. “There’s a chopper waiting nearby. You won’t have to face this alone,”

feeling uncertain,

a split second, she nearly burst

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of stone–how could she not feel hurt and wronged by all

as he sighed softly. “I’ll make it up to

kept

split second, a gut feeling twisted inside him–like he just knew he’d end up

was slipping out of his life before he could even reach

wouldn’t just stop loving me,‘

himself he wasn’t exactly a good guy, but after fifteen years of loving him–there was just no way she’d suddenly

kidnappers. The one in charge had a wedge–shaped, unsettling face, cold gleam in the whites of his eyes, and lines on his face carved deep as scars. He laughed like

was finally released, and she nearly collapsed as she crawled toward Charles, tears streaming down her

dragged Yolanda into the car parked behind the trucks–now the road was totally

and barely able to focus, as the vehicle tore down the

driving up front, the other two

wrong move. The tall, thin kidnapper thrust his hand out, his voice gritty and threatening. “Give me your phone. Now.

Charles’s car, she’d already fired off desperate texts to Samuel and Ian–those two were her

and

phone and tossed it aside. “Charles, cold as ice. Didn’t hesitate for a second–just handed his wife over. Tell you

laughter, but that quickly turned to brutal seriousness. “Call that guy- tell him Yolanda’s

watching as the man quickly

connected, his tone was

son of a bitch! I’ve got your little honey right here. If you don’t want her dead, you better show up–fast. Or we’ll take turns with her and tear her to pieces. What was her name again? Oh yeah, Yolanda! And let me

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was cool with a subtle tenderness when he spoke to her, but now, on the phone,

“I don’t

hung up instantly, utterly