LOGINChapter 260Elowen I held her gaze. "Yes.""Elowen." She said my name the way she did when she was trying to choose between ten different responses and couldn't land on one. "Your parents.""My biological parents. Yes.""The ones who left you at an orphanage.""I'm aware of what they did, Caroline."She exhaled through her nose. Looked away for a moment, at the fountain, at the pigeons, at some distant point past the flowering hedges, I could see her working through it. Trying to find the version of this conversation that helped me without feeding something that might hurt me."Why now?" she asked finally. Her voice had lost its edge. It was just careful now. Honest. "After everything, after all of it, why now?"I thought about it. Really thought about it, the way she'd asked me to do with the harder questions."Because I'm about to bring a child into the world," I said quietly. "And I don't know the first half of where I came from. I don't know what they looked like. I don't know
Chapter 259Elowen"That's the honest answer. I have no idea."The words came out quietly, but they landed with more weight than I expected. Like I'd been carrying them for a long time without realizing."For so long everything was about surviving him. Then it was about Giuliana's illness. Then it was about figuring out what I was to Matteo and Kian, what we were to each other." I shook my head slowly. "And now I have all of it. I have more than I ever dreamed of having. And when I try to look past it, past the family we're building, past the baby coming, I just…" I stopped. Pressed my lips together. "I don't know what I see."The confession sat between us, raw and a little clumsy. The kind of thing that sounds smaller out loud than it feels inside.Caroline didn't rush to fill it.She just looked at me, steady and patient, like she was giving me room to hear myself properly. "That's okay," she said quietly. "That's actually an incredibly honest and human thing to say. You don't hav
Chapter 258ElowenThe café was the kind of place you stumbled into by accident and never wanted to leave.It sat tucked at the end of a quiet side street, half-hidden behind a row of flowering hedges, with wrought iron chairs and little marble-topped tables that caught the morning light just right. A stone fountain gurgled softly at the center of the courtyard, and pigeons wandered between the legs of the empty chairs like they owned the place.Damien had excused himself the moment we sat down, something about wanting to find a bookshop he'd read about, though I suspected he simply knew that Caroline and I needed the space. He had that kind of quiet intelligence about him. He saw things without making a production of seeing them.I think that's why he can successfully own a company.We sat across from each other beneath a wide cream umbrella, our drinks between us — her coffee, my herbal tea. She was watching me stir my tea, and I could feel the shape of something building behind
Chapter 257ElowenMatteo’s kiss was demanding, his tongue sliding against mine with a hunger that matched the way Kian drove into me from behind. Every hard thrust pushed me forward into Matteo’s mouth, turning our kiss messy and desperate. I moaned into him, the sound swallowed as Kian’s cock stretched me perfectly, hitting that spot deep inside that made my toes curl.“Fuck, you feel incredible,” Kian growled, his grip on my hips tightening just enough to anchor me without hurting. He kept his rhythm steady but deep, mindful of the baby, never slamming too hard. Still, each stroke sent sparks racing through my body.Matteo broke the kiss only to trail his lips down my throat, sucking lightly at the sensitive skin there. “Look at you,” he murmured against my pulse. “Taking him so well. So greedy for us even after you’ve already come twice.” I whimpered, my hand sliding down Matteo’s chest until I wrapped my fingers around his cock again. He was hard once more, hot and heavy. I
Chapter 256ElowenHis hands came up immediately, gripping my hips, holding me steady just to be careful.The moment his tongue touched me, a sharp moan slipped from my throat.He licked slow and deliberate, dragging the flat of his tongue through my folds before circling my clit with just the right pressure. Then he pushed inside, hot and wet, tasting me like he couldn’t get enough. I leaned forward and took his cock into my mouth, sucking him deep, my lips sliding down his thick length. One hand stroked the base while the other cupped his heavy balls, rolling them gently, feeling them draw tight under my fingers.Matteo knelt behind me, between my spread legs. His hands smoothed over my ass and lower back, warm and reassuring. “Still okay?” he asked, voice rough.I could only hum around Kian’s cock in answer.He pressed the head of his cock against my entrance and slid in slowly, stretching me open inch by careful inch. When he was buried deep, I moaned louder, the sound vibrating
Chapter 255ElowenTheir eyes got dark the second I said it.Matteo stepped close first. His hands ran slowly down my sides over the thin green silk. “You look so fucking good in this,” he said, voice low and rough. His fingers traced the slit in the nightgown, brushing the bare skin of my thigh. He didn’t rush. He just touched me like he wanted to remember every inch.Kian moved in behind me. His chest pressed warm against my back, and his mouth found the side of my neck. He kissed me there, soft at first, then a little harder, sucking lightly. “We’re taking this off,” he said against my skin.Matteo hooked his fingers under the straps and eased them down my shoulders. The silk slipped off and fell to the floor. I stood there completely naked between them. The cool air touched my skin, but the blankets and the candles made the room feel safe and warm.Kian’s hands came around from behind and cupped my breasts, his palms big and warm. He held them gently, thumbs rubbing slow cir
Chapter 72Elowen I wanted to argue more but my bladder was making demands that couldn't be ignored and I realized he wasn't going to budge on this, so I took care of what I needed while trying to ignore his presence just a few feet away.When I finished I tried to stand on my own but my legs were
Chapter 67Matteo I nodded, not trusting my voice, and moved to her wheelchair to turn it away from the woman and her son, to guide us toward the petting zoo like she'd asked, to get my daughter away from people who didn't deserve to breathe the same air as her."Sì, principessa," "Yes, princess."
Chapter 68ElowenThree days had passed since Matteo disappeared and each morning I woke up hoping to find some explanation, some message, some sign that he hadn't just used me and vanished into thin air like I meant absolutely nothing.But there was nothing.Just silence and his empty chair at bre
Chapter 69Elowen"Go inside," Adrian said, his voice cutting through my declaration like it was nothing, like I hadn't just poured out two years of pain and finally found the courage to tell him the truth.He wheeled his chair toward me and I hated myself for the way my body automatically tensed,







