Chapter 100

Alexander PON

I sat on the sand, my elbows resting on my knees as I stared out at the waves crashing against the shore. The sky was gray, a mirror of the turmod inside me. I squeezed my eyes shut, letting the sound of the ocean drown out the thoughts that hammered in my head. But it didn’t help. Nothing helped.

Christiana’s words rang in my mind, each one hitting harder than the last. “If you hadn’t pushed yourself into our lives, none of this would’ve happened!”

She was right. I could see it in her eyes as she shoved me out of her hotel room earlier. The hate. The anger. The disgust.

I let out a low curse, my hands balling into fists. I was trying, trying so damn hard. But it wasn’t enough. No matter what I did, it was never enough. Christiana hated me. She blamed me for everything…the fire, the kidnapping. And why wouldn’t

I dug my fingers into the sand, clenching it until it slipped through my hands. Bianca. She was behind it all. The fire that could’ve taken Christiana’s life, the kidnapping that almost broke her. I hadn’t wanted to believe it at first, but now Christiana had figured it all out. It was her…Bianca, the woman I thought I’d left behind. The woman I should have known would never let go.

1 cursed again. louder this time, not caring if anyone on the beach heard me. The anger burned in my chest, hot and endless. I didn’t deserve this. None of it. I had tried to move on to fix things with Christiana for the sake of our kids. But now, Christiana despised me more than ever, and I was stuck here, alone, with nothing but my guilt and the mess I had created.

1 stood up abruptly, pacing along the shoreline, my footsteps leaving deep imprints in the wet sand. The wind whipped at my face, but I barely felt it. All I could think about was Christiana’s face, the way her eyes had hardened when she looked at

“It’s your fault. All of it‘

“Goddamn it” I shouted, my voice lost in the roar of the waves.

I hadn’t known Bianca would do something like this. I hadn’t even thought about her since I walked away from that toxic relationship. But clearly, she hadn’t let go. And now, she had hurt the only people that mattered to me. All because of me.

1 stopped pacing and stared out at the water, the waves rolling endlessly. The ocean didn’t care about my problems, didn’t care that I was standing here falling apart while my life crumbled around me.

I thought back to the day Christiana and I first met. She had been so full of life, so full of love. But I had ruined that. I had ruined everything. And for what? To protect her? To give my kid a father?

I let out a bitter laugh, shaking my head. Christiana didn’t need me. She had made that clear. And my kids.. they didn’t need me either, not if I was the reason they were in danger.

I ran a hand through my hair, feeling the tension coil in my shoulders. I wanted to scream, to hit something, but what was

point? It was all falling apart, and I had no one to blame but myself.

the

But Bianca. God, she was going to pay for this. I’d make sure she paid for everything. For the fire. For the kidnapping. For the terror she’d caused Christiana. She thought she could get away with this, but she had no idea who she was dealing with. I wasn’t going to let her ruin anything else

‘Alex‘ I could still bear Christiana’s voice in my head, the cold edge in it, like I was a stranger to her now. She didn’t know it, but 1 had done everything to keep them safe. And yet, it was my past that came back to haunt us. My past that brought Bianca into our lives again.

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down at my hands. I wasn’t going to le it end like this. I would fix it. I had

at me anymore She saw me as the enemy, the cause of

push the image of her

me. I couldn’t get Christiana’s words out of my head. I tried, but they kept echoing, like a broken record on repeat. My fists clenched, and I could feel the

break me. I wasn’t going to let Bianca, anyone else, tear

Then my phone rang

out of the storm inside my head, and reached into my pocket. James‘ name flashed on the screen. I exhaled sharply and answered, trying to steady

got herself a new lawyer. One of

jaw, the muscles in my neck tightening. Of course she would. Bianca Monroe always knew how to play the game, how to manipulate her way out of every situation. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was sitting in her cell right now, smiling, thinking she’d beaten the system like she always

wasn’t going to

She committed those crimes. There’s no escaping that.” I stared out at the waves again, letting my words hang in the air, feeling

he was waiting for me to react to break or panic. But I wasn’t going to. Not for her.

lip, waiting for me to lose my temper over this. But

clipped, as I brushed the sand

know,” James answered

hanging up and shoving the phone

salty air, feeling the wind cut across iny face. Bianca might have the best lawyers money could buy, but I wasn’t worried. She wasn’t going to

make sure of it. I’d bury her if I had

feel the rage boiling beneath the surface. Bianca had been a stain on my life for weeks, and now she had gone too far.

of her. All because of Bianca and her

She had tried to destroy everything I cared about, and for what? To get back at me? To ruin my life because I left her? It didn’t matter now. She

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hand through my hair,

I had failed to protect her from this nightmare.

from the waves, my eyes narrowing as I thought about

let her.

And as for Christiana….

be enough for her to forgive me. But I wasn’t going to give up.

Christiana hated me now, I couldn’t just walk away. Not when my kids were still

but I would make sure that every

this time. Not this

low breath, the anger still coiling in my chest, but beneath it was something

walked into the house, my mind still thinking about what happened today, As I shut the door behind me, the familiar creak echoed through the hallway. I wanted nothing more than a few minutes of peace, but that was the last

get.

voice cut through the air like a

the living room. She stood near the fireplace, arms crossed, her lips pressed

of my nose as I stepped

this now,” she snapped, her voice

woman

who set the fire? Who tried to kill Christiana and the

chin, her

do such

like a criminal?”

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