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“Say goodbye to your daughter” I managed to say before closing the car door.

I didn’t know if I should be glad that Caela slept soundly as Niko leaned down to kiss her forehead and cradled her first in his palm for a moment. I managed my tears when the black SUV drove out of the black titanium gate leading out of the mansion, turning back only once to see the twins secured in their car seat, and then I faced ahead.

There were no armed men stationed at the gate as usual, and now that I think of it, they had been missing from their posts at the mansion.

I dried my cheeks and swept my hair behind me.

“Would it not be safer to leave in the night?” I asked in a low voice when I finally found my voice “What if someone was watching the house?”

A pair of aviators sitting on his strong nose shielding dark green eyes Miguel nodded as he eased the large vehicle into traffic “Exactly, there's nothing suspicious about a lone vehicle leaving the mansion at two in the afternoon, but at the d