Love Unbreakable

In the surveillance room, Jarrod watched Nicole on the screen, a pang of pain striking his heart.

Jarrod longed to embrace Nicole, yet he was acutely aware of his current lack of standing to do so.

During their silent car ride back, neither spoke a word.

Upon arriving at the mourning hall, Jarrod noticed Nicole had succumbed to sleep, worn out from being awake for two days straight.

Observing her peaceful slumber, Jarrod chose not to disturb her, allowing her to rest in the car.

"Waah..."

Suddenly, Nicole began crying in her sleep.

Her body trembled, and her muffled sobs deeply affected Jarrod.

Feeling as if his heart were ensnared by chains and grappling with immense guilt, Jarrod's face turned ashen.

He then did what he had longed to do.

He gently held Nicole in his arms.

In her sleep, Nicole, mistaking him for someone else, clung tightly to his arm.

Jarrod, breathing deeply, remained still, fearful of waking her.

After a while, exhaustion overcame Jarrod.Having also been awake for two days, Nicole's closeness, the focus of his turmoil, lulled Jarrod into sleep.

Nicole's eyes suddenly snapped open to the sound of Jarrod's steady breathing.

Contrary to appearances, she had not been asleep.

The thought of resting next to someone she deemed a demon was inconceivable.

Quietly, she shipped from Jarrod's embrace, leaving him slumped against the seat, vulnerable in sleep.

The moonlight cast a deceptive glow on his stern, yet striking features, masking his underlying ruthlessness.

Nicole, eyeing the driver's seatbelt, a sinister idea forming in her mind, contemplated an evil plan.

And that was to kill Jarrod.

The weight of her suffering and the Lawrence family’s tragedies all traced back to this man.

Nicole believed that by eliminating the root of these woes, she could finally give her parents peace.

In her mind, avenging them meant joining them in the afterlife.

As she pulled out the seatbelt and wrapped it around Jarrod's neck, her hands shook, tears streaming down her face.

She had never squashed an ant, how could she take a human life? Frozen, unable to complete the final act, her resolve wavered.

Then, a deep, raspy voice shattered the silence.

opened, his gaze

pressing the back of Nicole's hand, still clutching

icy as he asked,

moment, Nicole's

anger, unwillingness, and

chance, and Jarrod wouldn't grant

spilled over, her

Jarrod chuckled.

Too annoyed to

filled Nicole's eyes, leaving her

her heart

inability to end his

the sight of Nicole's

continually soften his hardened heart? He had thought their relationship was purely rooted in

seemed irrelevant whether he hated Nicole or

by a complex, unhealthy dynamic - a mix of love and hate, too

hatred alone could define or

midst of their tangled emotions, Jarrod's resolve was

let

over Jamie's deceitful

to stomach cancer be

Nicole's face, his eyes a tempest of emotion, Jarrod declared, "Nicole, we're even now, but I'm not letting you go just

It wasn't a request.

something he

of the revulsion his words might evoke in Nicole, Jarrod chose

give you that opportunity," he said,

"Jarrod, do you mean only death could make

I won't let

responded sharply, his eyes

think of dying, I'll come after everyone who ever

Nicole barely registered

living a life steeped

"Remember what

silent, lost in

signaling a new day, the time came

in paying their

cremation, Nicole, her voice barely above a whisper,revealed, "Jarrod, my father's final

this, frowned

he found himself unable to

car, Nicole turned

the best part

welled up,

managed through sobs, "I'll be here, waiting

Raegan, Nicole

past two days, ensuring he was

on Jarrod's

her gaze, Jarrod murmured,

the bite mark