Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 257

XANDER

For the past few days, I had watched them stumble around in their futile attempts to track me down. Every morning, they would set out at dawn, and every night they would return empty–handed, their efforts wasted. It was amusing to me.

They had no idea where to look, no real understanding of how to hunt someone like me. It was almost laughable. I had thought they were dangerous, but I quickly realized how wrong I was. There was nothing good about them, nothing that made them worthy of fear.

Perhaps they just hadn’t met their match yet. Until now.

Now, they had encountered me, and they knew they were nothing compared to what I was capable of. They were amateurs, playing a game they couldn’t win. But Olivia… she was another story. She surprised me. I had expected more resistance from her, some fight, some fire. But instead, she complied.

She ate the food I gave her, barely muttering a word of protest. The silence was almost worse than anything. I could tell that the trauma from what I had done to her was starting to sink in. The damage was done, and it pleased me in ways I couldn’t fully explain.

The toenail incident… it had worked its magic. Watching that process unfold, seeing her struggle, paralyzed and unable to move, was a kind of torment I knew she would never forget. That was the point. It wasn’t enough to hurt her physically; I wanted her mind to break.

To make her feel like there was no escape, to be trapped in her own body, forced her.

gan to endure the horror I inflicted on

I saw that look, the scared, distant look in her eyes. It was almost… comical. She was

you alone again,” I told her, grinning as I

was only a matter of time before I was ready to finish what I started, before I could see the life drain out of her and place her head on my father’s grave as

added, feigning innocence. “I forgot you can’t

stillness. As I made my way out, a sick smile played across my lips. I had plans to visit my father’s grave. Tomorrow, I would bring him the gift I had promised. And then I would send Olivia’s body to

would be just another body for him to bury, another

at the graveyard, I wasn’t prepared for what I

people there, Luke’s people. A dozen or more of them, gathered around the site, digging up my father’s

My mind spun, trying to come up with an explanation, but none of them made sense.

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men shifted, and the movement gave me a

me. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. My father’s casket was being pulled from the grave, falling apart, his bones scattered. The remains of my

it any longer. I didn’t know when I stepped from behind the gravestone, but suddenly I was there, standing in the open. My

you doing with my father’s remains?” I bellowed, the words thick with heartbreak and

of my voice drew Luke’s attention. He turned slowly, his face unreadable. He seemed almost… amused by my outburst. As if he expected this reaction, as if this was all part of some sick

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