LOGINInside, 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
“Oh, hell,” she muttered, remembering suddenly. She dug through the bag, pulling out her phone. The battery was nearly dead, with only 10% left, and she had missed seventeen calls from Keira.“I need to call my sister,” she said as Luca got into the driver’s side. “She’s probably freaking out.”He n
She was done being subtle.The trigger she’d embedded had worked… someone had tried to delete backup files tied to Kingston’s contract. They’d failed. But that didn’t matter now. What mattered was who.Sutton cracked open the internal IP logs and copied the identifier. Then she opened a separate ter
The alarm pierced the quiet like a slap.Sutton jolted, blinking hard as the sound cut through the thick fog in her head. The noise wasn’t deafening, but it was sharp and urgent. It snapped her back to the here and now with brutal clarity.Saved by the bell.She looked over Luca’s shoulder toward he
She had been very horny lately. Pregnancy hormones. But she wasn’t going to think about him that way. He was married. And he had thrown her away. But she knew things about him Nicole could only dream of knowing. “He asked to see me, so I should do that, don’t you think?” Sutton said simply. Nicol







