Chapter 243 Leo’s POV I marched into my office where I knew Blair and my head army commander, Ollie, would be waiting. “Thank you for coming so early in the morning,” I said to them. Blair forced a smile and nodded but Ollie just looked grave. He was a big

Chapter 242 The second I was sure Andrea and the gun were far enough away, I woke Leo up. “What’s the matter, Ells?” he asked. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost. And why are you shaking?” “A-Andrea,” I stuttered. “You had a nightmare?” I shook my head and swallowed,

Chapter 241 That night I hardly slept. I couldn’t stop thinking about the ring and the letter and how it got to the doorstep. Leo was right next to me and had promised not to fall asleep until I did. But I felt terrible keeping him up, especially as he

Chapter 240 Two months later… It was a sunny Sunday morning. The sun shone into the library and there was a gentle breeze through the open windows as I sat on the carpet playing with Stefano and Zacharias. Leo was out working but Max sat on the other side of

Chapter 239 It had been two weeks since they since the nightmare that nearly led to me overdosing. Four days of that time had been spent in hospital being slowly and painfully withdrawn from the medication before the Doctor stopped giving it to me altogether. The rest of the time,

Chapter 238 Leo’s POV I could feel myself drifting out of sleep. I don’t know what brought me to. Whether she made a noise or if it was just pure instinct but thank the Goddesses I did. I opened my eyes to see Ella sat up in the bed with

Chapter 237 Ella’s POV I was running through the jungle again. The branches and vines whipped me just as usual but this time, the pain was more excruciating. The fear too came in constant waves of intensity and the pounded of my pulse in my ears was louder. It was

Chapter 236 Ella stayed in the hospital for another week. She took the pills every day and as promised, they took away her negative emotions but also everything else too. She no longer needed my hugs or any kind of comfort and she lost interest entirely in talking to me

Chapter 235 The pills were those capsule ones with the two different colours. They were in an orange-tinted plastic jar and the lid was white with a child lock. The warning label read “highly addictive during prolonged use’ explaining why the jar could contain no more than about 20 pills.

Chapter 234 Leo refused to leave. When I first woke up, it was clear I’d had some memory loss because the longer I sat in that hospital bed, the more traumatic images began to flood back in and the more grateful I was to have him right next to me.