Chapter 162: Are you scared?

October 11th, 2010, Willowbend, Mississippi

Dean's POV

The detailed autopsy report came back three days later.

Luka's stomach showed no signs of poison, and his blood work was clean. That confirmed what we already suspected—no other injuries inflicted before death. Just a rich European financier who...

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Chapters

1. Chapter 1: Wrapped Around Her Ankle

2. Chapter 2: Meat Is Meat

3. Chapter 3: No Interest

4. Chapter 4：Fed The Whiskey

5. Chapter 5: The Reconstructed Face

6. Chapter 6: Two Buttons Short

7. Chapter 7: Her Name

8. Chapter 8: Fish Girl

9. Chapter 9: He Laughed When I Swore

10. Chapter 10: Bike Race

11. Chapter 11: Mrs. Chen’s Fried Chicken

12. Chapter 12: Teenage Longings Under Night’s Veil

13. Chapter 13: Just Boat Whores

14. Chapter 14: When Heroes Fall

15. Chapter 15: Lights on the Water

16. Chapter 16: Unraveling Threads

17. Chapter 17: You Weren't This Cold In Bed

18. Chapter 18: The Most Gifted Softball Student

19. Chapter 19: Every Man's Sexual Fantasy in Town

20. Chapter 20: They're Inside

21. Chapter 21: August 30,Transfer Day

22. Chapter 22: Hit and Run-In

23. Chapter 23: Bad Habits in the Dark

24. Chapter 24: The Yellowed Bra

25. Chapter 25: Unexpected Kindness

26. Chapter 26: You're Going to Win

27. Chapter 27: Blue Ostrich

28. Chapter 28: She's Got More Backbone Than You Do

29. Chapter 29: Second Place Son

30. Chapter 30: Midnight Visitor

31. Chapter 31: Maybe We Could Try

32. Chapter 32: Champion Fucker

33. Chapter 33: The Real Clown

34. Chapter 34: White Daisies and My Guilt

35. Chapter 35: A Piece of Fabric

36. Chapter 36: The Photography

37. Chapter 37: She Wasn't As Sexy and Beautiful As You Are

38. Chapter 38: Lover from New York

39. Chapter 39: When the Wind Howls

40. Chapter 40: Coward

41. Chapter 41: It's For Your Mom

42. Chapter 42: The Five-Thousand-Dollar Secret

43. Chapter 43: Blood on Marble

44. Chapter 44: Christmas Eve in a Cell

45. Chapter 45: Maybe My Mother Is Right About Girls Like You!

46. Chapter 46: Kneeling for Mercy

47. Chapter 47: Faded Dream

48. Chapter 48: She Would Never Commit Suicide

49. Chapter 49: It's Always The Husband

50. Chapter 50: Perfect Answers

51. Chapter 51: The White Sheet

52. Chapter 52: The Uninvited Guest

53. Chapter 53: So Who’s Stealing Whom?

54. Chapter 54: You Can Shoot?

55. Chapter 55: The Last Conversation

56. Chapter 56: Missing

57. Chapter 57: When the Wolves Come Calling

58. Chapter 58: The Debt Collectors

59. Chapter 59: You Can Use Your Bodies as Collateral

60. Chapter 60: The Floating Casino

61. Chapter 61: The Special New Home

62. Chapter 62: The Woman from New York

63. Chapter 63: The Leap

64. Chapter 64: The Empty Apartment

65. Chapter 65: Mistress of the Mob

66. Chapter 66: The Grave Visit

67. Chapter 67: The Loaded Gun

68. Chapter 68: The Woman Shared by Father and Son

69. Chapter 69: Moans Through Thin Walls

70. Chapter 70: 2800 Dollars

71. Chapter 71: Do I Really Look Like A Peach Now?

72. Chapter 72: You're Gonna Need It

73. Chapter 73: Why Not Sell Houses Instead of Softballs

74. Chapter 74: Dream big. Close bigger!

75. Chapter 75: I'm A Screw-up

76. Chapter 76:Dialing Danger at Midnight

77. Chapter 77: My New York Dream Has Come True

78. Chapter 78: Maybe He Has Something on Nina's Mother

79. Chapter 79: Not Her Boyfriend At All

80. Chapter 80: The Lie Unravels

81. Chapter 81: Hand On My Thigh

82. Chapter 82: Monica Disappeared

83. Chapter 83: Shared Secrets

84. Chapter 84: She's Cheating!

85. Chapter 85: Women's Weapons

86. Chapter 86：Body as Currency

87. Chapter 87: Sold for Nothing

88. Chapter 88: Last Resort

89. Chapter 89: The Rules Behind This City

90. Chapter 90: The Revelation

91. Chapter 91: Homecoming

92. Chapter 92: Frosting and Cracks

93. Chapter 93: The Sex Tape Threat

94. Chapter 94: Stay Tonight

95. Chapter 95: Special Roommate

96. Chapter 96: The Missing Year

97. Chapter 97: Stripper Roommate

98. Chapter 98: Back to Square One

99. Chapter 99: Dreams Deferred

100. Chapter 100: False Accusations

101. Chapter 101: Every Bare Inch

102. Chapter 102: New York Cops

103. Chapter 103: His Crazy Proposal

104. Chapter 104: New Beginnings

105. Chapter 105: First Time in His Room

106. Chapter 106: Studying Between the Sheets

107. Chapter 107: Letting Go

108. Chapter 108: Sleeping Her Way to the Top

109. Chapter 109: The Fallen Man

110. Chapter 110: Coffee Shop Memories

111. Chapter 111: The Last Lesson

112. Chapter 112: How Did You Become a Stripper?

113. Chapter 113: Power in the Spotlight

114. Chapter 114: Lupus

115. Chapter 115: The Butterfly Rash

116. Chapter 116: The Decision

117. Chapter 117: Trapped

118. Chapter 118: Cold Barrel

119. Chapter 119: The Boyfriend Nobody Saw

120. Chapter 120: Confessions

121. Chapter 121: The Golden Palace

122. Chapter 122: The Porcupine Without Quills

123. Chapter 123: Stocks Rise, Clothes Fall

124. Chapter 124: Roulette of Desire

125. Chapter 125: Bondage

126. Chapter 126: The Dow and the Whip

127. Chapter 127: The Allure of Passive Income

128. Chapter 128: The Fall

129. Chapter 129: Stripped by the Market

130. Chapter 130: Stage Name

131. Chapter 131:The Forgotten Sister

132. Chapter 132: The Night of the Murder1

133. Chapter 133: The Night of the Murder2

134. Chapter 134:The Victim Turned Killer

135. Chapter 135:First Strip

136. Chapter 136: A Face Worth Chasing

137. Chapter 137: The Final Bid

138. Chapter 138: Unveiled and Unwanted

139. Chapter 139: The Arrest Warrant

140. Chapter 140: Twins

141. Chapter 141:Eden Island

142. Chapter 142: A Night of Blanks and Bruises

143. Chapter 143: Red Marks on the Inner Thighs

144. Chapter 144: What the Photos Revealed

145. Chapter 145: Confrontation

146. Chapter 146: The Choice

147. Chapter 147: The Shot

148. Chapter 148: The Final Bargain

149. Chapter 149:Even Tears Forbidden

150. Chapter 150: Marked and Mocked

151. Chapter 151: I Know Everything

152. Chapter 152: The Last Gift

153. Chapter 153: The Call Home

154. Chapter 154:Voices She Never Told

155. Chapter 155: Stay With June

156. Chapter 156:The Beast Is Awake

157. Chapter 157: The Body at Dock 9