Shadow of Deceit

rring to?" Caleb inquired disbelievingly. If she

– the number of crimes they've committed was

organ shipments and even mass murders – the Gravey

een. Luke Steele – the dashing womanizer, Liam Steele – the temperamental

a flickered his forehead

orker of mine said he was Luke and trust

ged nonchalantly. "Yeah, I guess. He was like the greatest pervert of all tim

h man wouldn't be attracted to her? Yet, he hated it. But if a mafia was int

s voice held eagerness, and she chuckl

s lips gently, b

artment, I came across a ruby pendant. Once I sold it, the money for the operation was re

something craz

Athe

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get rid of the countenance he displayed before she left the hospital. Her Caleb was one to alw

A sigh elicited from her lips as her head reste

lied again; he said he wouldn't get proved" Athena pou

ing all their properties and come back to the hosp

et him agitated? She couldn't decipher his reason for going to do

k? During the ride, she failed to acknowledge the

mode of dressing – what ordinary ca

's a lot

hat smoke?" her eyebrows were curved inquisitively, and he me

her burning apartment – why was it ablaze? Instantly the cab halted, s

n of the firefighters who simply told her

er eyes as she cried raucously – the memories wi

o move, yet she needed to

e went back into the cab. "Where miss?" the driver sm

she yelled outrageously angrily at him. H

zziness and her eyes steadily got shut. In a matter of se

s totally dark, and she could barely tell what the hell this place was. Yet due to the sun ray

causing Athena to nauseous. Her brain couldn't interpret what and where she was.

hands and legs of the chair. She gasped fearfully once she recalled when Caleb once

t a crime, did she? Athena didn't consider the pendant a

er could be found. Athena heard the sound of approaching foots

ock the door from the outside. The door o

is face when he violently groped her

insane hold didn't lessen one

ed to forget that cocky tone. Then again, how could she s

e pains she was going through, she

pend

dn't hear him, so win

ing pendant? Luke tells her to provi