Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 289

NICK

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Hearing the details of what Xander had done to Olivia nearly shattered me. Every word Marcus spoke felt like a fresh wound cutting deeper into my chest. My breath caught in my throat, and I had to hold myself back from crumbling under the weight of it all. I couldn’t even let Marcus finish telling me everything, I couldn’t hear more.. The images of what he did, the torture, the manipulation, the terror, were too much. My heart was already breaking for her, and I knew that hearing more would break me completely.

I had once believed that Xander might change, that after everything he had been through, he might come out the other side a better man. I thought maybe he would become better father, maybe he could still be a part of his son’s life. I was wrong. So wrong.

After hearing the horrors Olivia endured, I could no longer even entertain the idea of letting him go, of allowing him to walk free as if nothing had happened. He didn’t deserve that. Not after what he had done. I was no longer filled with the hope that he could redeem himself. There was no redemption for him, not after the pain he had caused her, not after the scars he had left. Olivia was going to carry those scars for the rest of her life, and no amount of time would ever heal that.

With grim determination, I pushed myself to my feet. My blood was boiling, but I needed to stay focused. Olivia’s pain, her suffering, it demanded action. It demanded justice. I couldn’t let Xander just slip away into the world, pretending everything was fine. He had to pay for what he’d done, and I was going to be the one to make sure of it

to the room where we had kept Xander, the one at the hotel. I had learned the night before that Luke owned the place, which made things

such force that it slammed against the wall, then bounced back toward me. The noise

and arms, evidence of the injuries he had sustained. He looked at me, his expression unreadable, like he was bracing for whatever would come next. He thought he was

my voice low and controlled. I hated the restraint it took to keep my composure. Every fibre of my being screamed at me to let go, to rush at him and make him feel the full extent of the

every part of me wanting to grab him by the throat, to choke the life out of him slowly and painfully. I wanted to see the terror in his eyes as he realized that everything he had done to Olivia, everything he had put her through, was now coming back to him. I wanted him to feel the helplessness, the desperation, the same things he had forced Olivia to feel. I wanted him to know that his death would be a

I needed him to confess everything. I needed to make sure he understood the gravity of what

resigned to whatever fate was about to unfold. “They must be in New Village by now,” he muttered, his voice rough. “They are originally from Summer Strand, where I’m from. The plan was to scout all your places, take you out

plan had been to methodically take us out, eliminate u…e by one. The realization

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just some maniac with a personal vendetta. This had been orchestrated, coldly and carefully.

to keep it in check. I had to be smart about this. I couldn’t let him see how much his words had affected me, how