로그인Inside, Blair sat on the sofa, her hand resting on her slight belly, while Roman stood nearby deep in conversation with Luca. Two-year-old Olivia was showing off her drawings to anyone who would look."Aunt Keira!" Olivia shouted, abandoning her colouring-in to run across the room. Keira bent down,
Olivia, growing restless, wiggled off Blair’s lap. “Can I go play with my blocks?”“Yes, but stay in the playroom,” Roman told her. “I’ll be there in a minute.”As Olivia skipped off, Roman pulled Blair to her feet and into his arms. “You look tired. You should have let me bring someone in to handle
“Mama! Look!”Blair looked up from her laptop to see her two-year-old daughter, Olivia, proudly showing off a crayon drawing that was mostly colorful scribbles.“That’s beautiful, sweetheart,” Blair said, genuinely impressed with the artwork of her toddler. “Is that our family?”Olivia nodded madly,
"Is that what you think?" Niko's voice was dangerously quiet. "That your only value is as a... what? A royal broodmare?""It's the reality of our position," she insisted. "The Wystovian crown needs an heir. You need an heir. And I can't—" Her voice broke.Niko crossed the distance between them in th
"I'm trying to protect him—""From what? From having a choice?" Keira's voice grew stronger. "You're deciding what's best for Niko without asking him what he wants. That's not protection, that's control."Amelia stared at her, startled by the blunt assessment."Look, I get it. The pressure is overwh
Amelia shook her head, the weight of her failure pressing down on her. "The doctors say there's nothing wrong with Niko, which means the problem lies with me. I'm considering stepping aside, letting him divorce me so he can marry someone who can actually give him an heir." She glanced at Keira, sudd
Saturday lunch with her sisters was supposed to be her chance to catch up with her older sisters and have baby cuddles from Miles. Since Sutton and Blair had both married and started to grow their family, they hadn't been as available as before. She was happy for them, but it made her realize that h
Sutton giggled and then said in her big sister voice, "If you are not happy, get out now."Baby Miles let out a fart so loud it made the table pause.“Preach,” Keira muttered.Despite everything, the non-stop texts, the pressure, the stress, Keira felt her shoulders soften. This was her anchor. Her
And yet, increasingly, it was her unimpressed look that he pictured when he was alone. Keira wasn’t impressed with his title, and she’d tell anyone she wasn’t impressed by him. He liked being around her, even when she was hating him with her eyes. He was surprised she hadn’t quit.The thing was, he
Alexei had known this party would be boring before he even turned up.Rich people stood around pretending they weren’t about to talk shit the moment your back turned. And the women? They flocked like peacocks in glitter and stilettos, beaming like landing lights, hoping the world’s most notorious ro







