My throat tightened. “You really think we could make it work?” It was still a shock to see Damon so open to his brother’s presence. Things really had changed in recent months. I supposed we had all changed.“I think you’ll never know unless you try.” Damon reached across the desk and covered my hand
NataliaI found Damon in his study that afternoon, hunched over a stack of paperwork with a cup of coffee growing cold beside him. The late afternoon sun streamed through the windows, casting golden rectangles across the hardwood floor. He looked up when I knocked on the doorframe, and his face imme
Lilith flinched, fresh tears spilling over. “I never would have—”“Don’t tell me you wouldn’t have gone to such a length to get what you wanted, Lilith. You tried to kill two children. You pushed Jane and Max into that lake and you did it with glee. They could have died. You nearly murdered two fuck
AndreiThe drive back to Moonshadow felt endless. My hands were gripping the steering wheel so hard my knuckles had gone white, and my jaw ached from clenching my teeth. Donor sperm. The words kept echoing in my head, over and over like a fucking broken record.Lilith had used donor sperm.Which mea
My children had been through enough. They didn’t deserve to suffer more, especially not at the hands of a madwoman.“What are you going to do about her?” I asked.“I haven’t decided yet. But first, there’s something I need to show you.” Andrei reached into his pocket and pulled out a business card,
NataliaI woke up slowly and languidly, my cheek warming beneath the morning sun filtering through the tall infirmary windows. The first thing I noticed aside from that buttery sunlight was a solid, familiar warmth pressed against my side and the steady rise and fall of breathing that wasn’t my own.