MasukThe crowd cheered, but none were louder than our excited children.Ivan’s POVIt was good of Claire to invite me to her wedding. I’d thought for a while that I might avoid the whole thing, but now that I was here, that I could be surrounded by the obvious love between the pair, I was glad that I had
Claire’s POVThe day of our wedding, I couldn’t stop looking at myself in the mirror. I was wearing a flowing white dress that Leo and Nova had helped me pick out. My hair was done up in a bun. I barely recognized myself, so put together and done up.“You look like a princess,” Nova said from nearby
Gideon’s POVI kissed Claire with my full heart, then held her close. She giggled, pressed into the safety of my arms.“We can talk about it now,” she said. “Or you could kiss me again. I liked that.”“I want to,” I told her truly. “I don’t want to stop kissing you. But after all this, I want to see
Claire’s POVI was dragged out of the trunk roughly by my arms, then shoved down into the dirt at Daphne’s feet.Quickly, I glanced around, but I didn’t really recognize where I was. A forest, but I had no idea which one. Tents were set up here and there and people I didn’t know milled about. This m
George glanced over, seeing me in the dim interior light.“He loves you,” he said.“He does.”“Do you love him, too?”“Yes,” I said. It came out easier than I thought it would. “Yes, I do,” I said again, to be sure. This time was just as easy.“Good,” George said. “Gideon is a good man, a brave and
Claire’s POVWe had a handful of hours before we needed to leave for the exchange. In that time, George had me fitted for body armor.“They will likely attempt to remove it from you,” he said. “But try to keep it on for as long as you can. I don’t know what kind of torture they will attempt, but thi
It was a disaster waiting to happen, and I felt like I was an imprisoned observer, forced to watch it all unfold. Claire was a great woman. She deserved to be loved by someone who could fully see her for all that she was, and love every inch of her, the good and the bad. Yet, even as I thought tha
Gideon’s POVWith the way things were, I knew I wasn’t going to get any answers from Claire and Ivan, no matter what I said. To find out the truth about what happened six years ago, I was going to have to confront someone else who was there, who had a hand in the events of the day.Dealing with Daph
“I hate to be the one to bring this into question,” Darius said, smirking slightly. “But have you considered the possibility that Leo might not be your son.”This was the final straw, and my anger spiked. “That’s enough,” I snapped. “Do not spew anymore lies. Leo is my son. Anything else is impossib
Nova’s POVIt wasn’t like I didn’t really know. Even before Leo asked my birthday, I had some suspicions. Ivan had been a good uncle, but I didn’t really look like him. He and Mom never really acted like Mommies and Daddies usually did.Gideon, meanwhile, was a lot of fun to be around. He had always







