Chapter 75 Every Man Has A weakness
Evelyn’s POV
The night air felt heavier as I paced outside. It cut through my robe, through my skin, straight into my bones. I didn’t care. My mind was still in that room, still hearing that doctor scream, still seeing Daisy’s innocent face, still feeling Lorenzo’s hand burn a man like he was nothing but a paper.
I wiped my face with the back of my hand, trying to pull myself together, but my hands wouldn’t stop shaking. My heartbeat was loud in my ears.
“Evelyn.” I stopped immediately and turned slowly.
Lorenzo stood a few feet away, leaning against the SUV, arms crossed.
He exhaled sharply, pushing himself off the car with casual annoyance. “Come on……You need to stop overreacting.”
My jaw dropped and I couldn’t come up with a word other than a laugh, one of those broken, bitter laughs that came out when anger didn’t know where else to go.
“Overreacting?” I repeated, stepping forward. “You dragged me into all this shit. You almost killed my sister. And you’re calling me overreacting?”
His face stayed blank and emotionless.
“If I wanted her dead,” he said coldly, “she’d be dead already. I stopped it. You should be thanking me.”
I stared at him like he had lost his mind. “Thanking you? Are you even hearing yourself? You burned a man alive, Lorenzo!”
“He wasn’t innocent,” Lorenzo dismissed. “Doctors don’t get dragged into dark deals unless their hands are dirty. He must have had secrets, that's why he was unlucky.”
“I don’t care!” I shouted. “You killed someone again. Right in front of me and you made me do that with you.”
"At least I’m still alive,” he shot back, stepping closer. “And your sister is also alive.”
“Jesus Christ!" I spat. “Will all this ever stop? Who did you sell your conscience to?”
He grabbed my chin suddenly, forcing my eyes up to him. “I already told you……this old man standing before you never had one.”
Tears rushed to my eyes again, but I refused to let them fall.
“Oh my fucking God. So you would have killed my sister?” I whispered. “If I hadn’t walked into that room with you guys….. you would have taken her life.”
His jaw clenched with something that looked like guilt and anger covering his face. “I never knew you had one and yes I would have.”
My face twisted into a look of pure disgust. “You’re cruel!”
I stepped back, putting some space between us, and that was when Gideon and his men came running toward us.
“Did you carry out the assessment I gave you?” Lorenzo asked.
“Yes, boss,” Gideon replied instantly, his expression cold and unreadable.
“Fine.”
Lorenzo turned back to me, one hand on the car door, holding it open like an order I was supposed to obey. “Eve, let’s go.”
“No.” My voice cut through the air, sharp and furious. “I’d rather take another car.”
There was no way I was surviving another minute trapped beside him, not after everything he’d just done.
He stared at me for a long, tense second, something dangerous flickering in his eyes, like he was fighting the urge to drag me inside by force. But he held himself back.
“Gideon,” he called, his tone clipped, “you drive her home. I’ll take another car.”
Gideon bowed his head in acknowledgment and moved toward the driver’s seat.
I slipped into the back seat, jaw clenched and chest rising with anger, while Lorenzo still held the door wide open, his presence suffocating even from inches away.
The car pulled out of the hospital compound. My heart pounded the entire drive. My eyes didn’t leave the window. I didn’t say a word to Gideon, and he didn’t push.
When we finally reached home, the car rolled to a slow stop.
When we finally reached home, the car rolled to a slow stop.
“Ms. Martins,” Gideon said gently, “I’m sorry for tonight.”
I nodded weakly and stepped out.
The compound lights were bright enough to make me squint. The night was too quiet and totally different from the chaos I had just come from.
I took one step toward the house, desperate for rest. Today had sucked the life out of me.
But when I was reaching the entrance, I saw a shadow from a hidden corner. Tall, broad shoulders, hands in his pockets. From the way he was standing it looked like he had been waiting for hours.
I got closer only to find out that it was Nolan. My breath caught in my throat.
“Nolan?”
He pulled away from the pillar he was leaning on before walking towards me, too calm but there was a hint of something unusual in his eyes.
“Nolan,” I repeated, my voice barely a whisper.
“Eve,” he breathed, stopping right in front of me. “Jesus Christ, where have you been? I’ve been looking everywhere.”
“I…… I had to step out.”
“You look terrified,” he whispered, stepping closer. “What happened to you?”
I shook my head quickly. “Nolan, please….. not now.”
He studied my face, reading every broken piece like he had known all along something was wrong.
“Eve,” he said softly, “you’re sweating….. is something wrong?”
My hand shot to my forehead in a panic, fingers trembling as I tried to wipe away the dampness.
Nolan’s face hardened. “What did he do this time around?”
My breath hitched. “W-what? Who?”
“Lorenzo of course,” Nolan said quietly but firmly, tilting his head to meet my eyes. “Where did he take you to? I learnt that his men rushed out with you two, do you need me to confront him.”
He brushed past me toward the garage, probably to start an argument with Gideon or something far worse. Panic surged through me, and I rushed after him, stepping in front of him to block his path.
“No!” I cut in quickly. “No, Nolan….. it wasn’t like that. It’s not, it’s complicated.”
Nolan tried to force his way forward, but my palm met his chest, silently urging him to calm down. He stilled, then gently wrapped his hand around mine.
“Then let me help you. Please. Let me be here for you, Eve.”
My throat tightened. Because for a second, just a second, I wanted to fall into his arms and forget Lorenzo ever existed. Forget everything that has happened in the past few days.
But then I remembered one thing, Lorenzo still owned Nolan, he wasn’t here as a visitor or just a family. He is still Lorenzo’s captive.
And Lorenzo didn’t care who he destroyed as long as he kept his world in place.
“Nolan,” I whispered, pulling my hands back, “you shouldn’t be here.”
His eyebrows drew together. “Why not?”
“Because…. if Lorenzo finds you here….”
“I don’t care,” he said simply, not letting me finish.
“Then I do,” I snapped, tears burning my eyes again. “Nolan, you don’t understand. He’s not human. He’s not someone you can stand up to. He’s……”
“Wrap it up, Eve,” Nolan said, rolling his eyes in a way that made my stomach twist. “No matter how deadly he pretends to be. No matter how much he’s rumored to be the devil, every man has a weakness. Something that can kill him. All we have to do is find it, use it, and destroy him.”
My breath snagged in my throat. “Nolan?”
He stepped closer, brushing a tear from my cheek with his thumb. “Yes, Eve. You don’t have to worry about him anymore. Just say yes to me, accept me and leave the rest to me.”
“I can help you escape this hell,” he whispered. “Just agree to love me back. Please.”
I stood frozen, words refusing to form.
Then a hard voice cut through the air behind me.
“What the fuck are you doing around her?”
I spun around in shock to see Lorenzo emerging from the shadows.