Chapter 42

Dominic’s POV

I reached for the car door where Samantha sat with the twins, their small forms huddled together in the backseat. “Wait for me,” I said. “I’ll drive you home. Just give me a minute.”

She did not respond, did not even look at me. Her silence was louder than any words she could have spoken. It was a silence I was not used to, one that had a gravity of its own. I turned, heading back toward the house, but something in her quiet stillness tugged at me.

For the first time in what felt like forever, I believed we might be able to fix this, whatever this was between us. Finding the twins together, fighting side by side against Olivia, I showed her how much I cared for her and the twins, and I just hoped she could see that I was serious with her, and in fixing our marriage. I wanted her back, and she should know that. Maybe it was not too late yet. Maybe I could prove to her that I was not the man she had run from all those years ago.

I stepped back into Olivia’s house, and befo