Can’t Win Me Back

Carl's eyes blazed with feral intensity.

A monstrous grin twisted his face as he laughed and cried simultaneously, lost in a manic frenzy.

"Very well then...

Let's die together," he declared.

"All you've done is because you want to be with Axel as an unlawful couple." Carl chuckled.

"But don't you ever dare dream of having your wish come true!" Carl held Amber in a chokehold as he retreated toward the edge of the roof step by step.

At last, he planted a cold and moist kiss on Amber's cheek, accompanied by a drop of bitter tear.

"Amber, if we can't be together when we're alive, let's be husband and wife when we get to the afterlife." In the next second, Amber's heart dropped as she fell backward weightlessly.

"Amber!" Axel cried out.

At lightning speed, he charged toward Amber.

Simultaneously, a whoosh sounded from the church rooftop.

A sharp crack followed a piercing sound that tore through the air from over 300 feet away.

As Amber was dragged toward the roof's edge with the vicious Carl, she heard a sharp crack above her head, like an egg against a rock.

Terror-stricken, she gasped for breath.

Then, the air seemed to freeze.

Axel saw a gunshot wound blossoming on Carl's forehead.

at Axel,

in extreme pain,

in fear as she waited

her was a

Carl fell off the building,

Axel pulled her into his

curved, shielding her completely

longed to hold her deep

"Amber, you're alright now.

comforted

uncontrollably, his tears, pounding heart, and labored breaths betraying his

grip on Amber

in her white wedding

back, but her arms felt as

them

"Oh, dear Lord...

Cyrus let out a long

been scared

the most terrifying crime scene that I've handled within these

going

the outcome if he hadn't assisted us in secret.'' Jonah peered at the church opposite

"None of the men in the Taylor family

and moved him to the

the sniper who had been lying in wait

his

deep look in

composed,