Pay With Life

Samantha lowered her head, took a deep breath, and gathered her courage to speak, "Ethan, I feel like we're from two different worlds, not compatible. Please, just let me go! I know I've wronged you, I shouldn't have provoked you. I apologize for my words and actions towards you. I'm sorry..."

Ethan's eyes glared fiercely at Samantha, as if he wanted to devour her alive.

"What did you say? Say it again!"

His voice almost squeezed out from between his teeth, each word uttered as if he was exerting all his restraint. As if he could strangle her the next second.

Samantha could clearly feel the anger and threat in his words, but she deeply knew that if they didn't clarify things today, the two of them would only continue to pull each other apart endlessly.

It wouldn't be fair to Justin, nor to Ethan.

She didn't want to be a woman torn between two sides.

"Suzy is the biological mother of Alexander and Noah, and I have my own daughter too. The Steele family can never accept Charlotte, but I